Forgetful Memory and Images of the Holocaust

College English Mar 2004

Forgetful Memory and Images of the Holocaust

Michael Bernard Donals

Abstract

This essay explores how photographic images of atrocity work to undo some of our assumptions about how historical narratives work, and disturb the cultural memory that allows us to write ourselves into history. It suggests a way of reading these photographic images that yields something that might be called “forgetful memory,” aspects of the event at the center of the photo that cannot be integrated into the narrative we build to contain it.

Journal: College English
Published: 2004-03-01
DOI: 10.58680/ce20042842
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multimodality

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