English Explanatory Dictionary

postmemory

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.

Word forms

postmemory postmemories

Etymology

Coined by Marianne Hirsch. From post- + memory.

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