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postmemories

postmemories is the plural of postmemory.

Meaning of postmemory

Noun

postmemory (usually uncountable, plural postmemories)

  1. (usually) 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.
    • In my reading, postmemory is distingushed from memory by generational distance and from history by deep personal connection.1997, Marianne Hirsch, Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory, Harvard University Press, page 22

Questions about postmemories

What is postmemories the plural of?
Postmemories is the plural of postmemory.

Words near postmemories in the dictionary

  1. postmedium
  2. postmeeting
  3. postmeiosis
  4. postmeiotic
  5. postmeiotically
  6. postmemories
  7. postmemory
  8. postmen
  9. postmenarchal
  10. postmenarchally
  11. postmenarche

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