Postmemory

Noun

Word Frequency: 0.0

Definitions

1.NounA relationship that people of subsequent generations bear to the trauma of their forebears, which they cannot directly remember but rather know through stories, imagery, and behaviour.

Synonyms

posthistory afterwardness afterwardsness postexistence promnesia afterstory postquel legacy nachleben backshadowing retrospective memory priming

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