For those who cannot speak: towards new and ethical expressions of Holocaust remembrance by the third generation

Scholfield-Peters, Tess P.

For those who cannot speak: towards new and ethical expressions of Holocaust remembrance by the third generation

Scholfield-Peters, Tess P.

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dc.contributor.author	Scholfield-Peters, Tess P.
dc.date.accessioned	2023-04-02T23:31:40Z
dc.date.available	2023-04-02T23:31:40Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/169046
dc.description	University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.	en_US.UTF-8
dc.description.abstract	In the present moment, the Holocaust period balances on the edge of living memory. As the last Holocaust witnesses pass away, there is a sense of urgency and gravity for the third generation—that is, the grandchildren of witnesses or people who are otherwise at a three- generation remove—who seek to preserve and share these stories, and who are the new custodians of this representative responsibility. This creative practice thesis is two-fold in its exploration of the third-generation representative voice. The exegetical component, Beyond remembrance, towards responsibility: writing life through documentary fiction, uses theoretical discussion, case studies, narrative inquiry, textual analysis, reflection and auto-ethnographic study to underpin the creative work. The creative artefact is a documentary fiction text, titled Dear Mutzi, which documents the lives of my great-grandparents and grandfather during the years 1938–1939, alongside the narrative thread of my relationship with my grandfather over the past two years. This thesis answers the central research question: How can the third-generation writer ethically reconstruct a grandparent’s Holocaust story through literature? I argue that a hybrid approach is necessary for the third-generation representational voice. As the Holocaust inevitably grows distanced from the present moment, research-informed imagination presents as the appropriate tool for the third-generation writer and subsequent generations to engage with familial history that is characteristically incohesive.	en_US.UTF-8
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dc.title	For those who cannot speak: towards new and ethical expressions of Holocaust remembrance by the third generation	en_US.UTF-8
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Abstract:

In the present moment, the Holocaust period balances on the edge of living memory. As the last Holocaust witnesses pass away, there is a sense of urgency and gravity for the third generation—that is, the grandchildren of witnesses or people who are otherwise at a three- generation remove—who seek to preserve and share these stories, and who are the new custodians of this representative responsibility. This creative practice thesis is two-fold in its exploration of the third-generation representative voice. The exegetical component, Beyond remembrance, towards responsibility: writing life through documentary fiction, uses theoretical discussion, case studies, narrative inquiry, textual analysis, reflection and auto-ethnographic study to underpin the creative work. The creative artefact is a documentary fiction text, titled Dear Mutzi, which documents the lives of my great-grandparents and grandfather during the years 1938–1939, alongside the narrative thread of my relationship with my grandfather over the past two years. This thesis answers the central research question: How can the third-generation writer ethically reconstruct a grandparent’s Holocaust story through literature? I argue that a hybrid approach is necessary for the third-generation representational voice. As the Holocaust inevitably grows distanced from the present moment, research-informed imagination presents as the appropriate tool for the third-generation writer and subsequent generations to engage with familial history that is characteristically incohesive.

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