Postmemory and literature of alterity: the Jew in Malinski, by the Irish writerSíofra O'Donovan

Authors

  • Eda Nagayama Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-5894.i21p86-101

Keywords:

postmemory, affiliative memory, Irish literature, Holocaust, bystanders

Abstract

Malinski (2000), by the Irish Síofra O'Donovan, narrates the story of two Polish siblings separated during WWII. The only Jewish character is a tailor in Lvov that appears either as ephemeral remembrance or phantasmagoria. The novel is here seen as resulting of affiliative memory in inversion, based on Marianne Hirsch’s postmemory (2008). Even if unintentionally, O'Donovan's narrative ends up effacing the Jews and the Holocaust, and reinforces the contemporary discussion of the Poles exclusively as victims and impotent bystanders.

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Author Biography

  • Eda Nagayama, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo
    Escritora e doutoranda em Estudos Literários em Inglês (FFLCH/USP/CNPq) com pesquisa sobre narrativas literárias de pós-memória. Mestre em Audiovisual e bacharel em Artes Cênicas (ECA/USP).

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Published

2018-09-24

Issue

No. 21 (2018)

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Postmemory and literature of alterity: the Jew in Malinski, by the Irish writerSíofra O’Donovan. (2018). Vértices, 21, 86-101. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-5894.i21p86-101