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Memory and Identity Construction

Author: LvXin
Tutor: FengWeiPing
School: Sichuan International Studies University
Course: German Language and Literature
Keywords: Memory Massacre Medium Identity Construction Negative symbiosis
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

Western philosophy since Plato: memory build and potentially subversive role of identity has no memory of identity construction can not imagine. Since the late 1980s, the relationship between memory and identity become a hot research theorists. As identity theory, the theory of \Oral transmission, the text passed and ceremony or festival three major media individual and collective memory is preserved, processing, and delivery. Memories identity construct different media have different meanings. Robert Sindel novel, published in 1992 \The memories of the Holocaust has been throughout the whole work. But the work of the people and the collective memories of this period of history and disparate attitude manifested memories. In this article, I will be the main memories are taken of the different media as the starting point of the text study of trying to novel each character and collective past processing way analysis, show their identity construct is a there is awareness of the process . The analysis found that the main characters in the novel, and the collective memories of media: 1. Verbal medium: Jewish survivors through the narrative of their own experience in the construction of an identity; another opposite choose silence forget the past and to express their desire to construct a new identity. The younger generation of Jews on the one hand by the family memories, indirect experience of the traumatic experience of the previous generation into their personal, to complete their own identity construction. Because the hosted family memories memory family members left, the corresponding memory will disappear, to construct the next generation in the identity of its basis will change; caused the other hand, due to the absence of their parents and families amnesia, making the next generation of identity construction presents diversity. 2. Text media: literature, to complete their own reflection on memory to complete the reflection identity. Ceremony media: novels, mainly non-Jewish collective rite of passage to build and maintain the identity of the collective and the collective identity of the members of the ceremony is to build on the collective identity of decisive significance in the cultural memory carrier. The novel, the author describes the different processing methods on the memory of the Jewish and non-Jewish, which reveals the personal and collective identity building process and the problems: most Jews still can not use a properly memories of World War II and the Holocaust and let it become part of their identity, because there is not a non-Jewish collective life they can properly treat the framework of the memories of this period of history, thus causing them to this state of \The authors also borrowed works express their own mind, that Austria should start to reflect on the history of the Holocaust construct part of an awareness of a collective identity, such life to each other in order to achieve a harmonious coexistence state in which Jews and non-Jews.

Memory and Identity Construction

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