Reconsidering Postmemory: Photography, the Archive, and Post-Holocaust Memory in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz

Abstract

Theories of postmemory can lose sight of the specificity of acts of post-Holocaust remembrance and of the identities formed through these acts. By examining W.G. Sebald?s Austerlitz and its use of photography, this essay scrutinizes the theory, practice,