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postmemory

The English word “postmemory” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A 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.

Etymology

Coined by Marianne Hirsch. From post- + memory.

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