TY - JOUR
T1 - The Cultural Politics of Progenic Auschwitz Tattoos
T2 - 157622, A-15510, 4559, …
AU - Brouwer, Daniel
AU - Horwitz, Linda Diane
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 National Communication Association.
PY - 2015/7/3
Y1 - 2015/7/3
N2 - Facing the loss of the last generation of Holocaust survivors, progeny of survivors have begun to tattoo their ancestors’ Auschwitz numbers on their own bodies. We investigate the rhetoricity of progenic tattooing through semiotic, affective, and pedagogical registers. We argue that shifting conditions of discourse across time alter decorum about public memory of the Holocaust. Further, the progenic practice, constituting a distinct form of trauma tattoo, enacts a mode of postmemory through a resignification of the original sign that makes visible the intergenerational trauma of the Holocaust.
AB - Facing the loss of the last generation of Holocaust survivors, progeny of survivors have begun to tattoo their ancestors’ Auschwitz numbers on their own bodies. We investigate the rhetoricity of progenic tattooing through semiotic, affective, and pedagogical registers. We argue that shifting conditions of discourse across time alter decorum about public memory of the Holocaust. Further, the progenic practice, constituting a distinct form of trauma tattoo, enacts a mode of postmemory through a resignification of the original sign that makes visible the intergenerational trauma of the Holocaust.
KW - Holocaust
KW - Kairos
KW - Public Memory
KW - Resignification
KW - Tattoos
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U2 - 10.1080/00335630.2015.1056748
DO - 10.1080/00335630.2015.1056748
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84939498836
SN - 0033-5630
VL - 101
SP - 534
EP - 558
JO - Quarterly Journal of Speech
JF - Quarterly Journal of Speech
IS - 3
ER -