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From Survivor to Im/migrant Motherhood and Beyond: Margit Silberstein’s Postmemorial Autobiography, Förintelsens Barn
Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, English language.
2023 (English)In: Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing / [ed] Helena Wahlström Henriksson; Anna Williams; Margaretha Fahlgren, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, p. 93-114Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The Swedish journalist and author Margit Silberstein’s autobiographical memoir, Förintelsens Barn (2021), represents her post-war upbringing in a survivor family. Both parents were Hungarian-speaking Jews from Transylvania, who were the only members of their respective families to survive horrendous persecution and conditions during the war. After the war they immigrated to a small town in Sweden, where Margit and her brother were born. This chapter examines the tensions in Silberstein’s account of her childhood and her relations with her parents, particularly her mother, viewing these tensions as stemming from characteristics of and contradictions between later postmemorial writing and the im/migrant literature of Sweden today, both of which are conditioned by their social contexts, including those of antisemitism. Silberstein’s work brings Holocaust postmemoir into dialogue with im/migrant autobiography in contemporary Sweden, and it suggests that this dialogue will continue to the third generation, Silberstein’s children.

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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. p. 93-114
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Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, ISSN 2731-6440, E-ISSN 2731-6459
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General Literature Studies
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Baltic and East European studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-51218DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3_6Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85151252352ISBN: 978-3-031-17210-6 (print)ISBN: 978-3-031-17213-7 (print)ISBN: 978-3-031-17211-3 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-51218DiVA, id: diva2:1745214
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Remembering Poland and Eastern Europe: Nostalgia, Memory, and Affect in Diasporic Women’s Writing, The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies
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The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, 31/2015Available from: 2023-03-22 Created: 2023-03-22 Last updated: 2023-04-11Bibliographically approved

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