Survivance

The term survivance designates the unconscious strategy put in place by the survivors of a collective disaster and their descendants, to reconstruct anew the precarious basis of a possible life among the “normal” people of the world which they inhabit. Survivance is admittedly a challenge and a bet...

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Huvudupphovsman: Altounian, Janine
Materialtyp: Article ou chapitre numérique
Språk:Anglais
Publicerad: Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire 2022
Länkar:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sammanfattning:The term survivance designates the unconscious strategy put in place by the survivors of a collective disaster and their descendants, to reconstruct anew the precarious basis of a possible life among the “normal” people of the world which they inhabit. Survivance is admittedly a challenge and a bet upheld by the inheritors of contemporary mass exterminations. Yet it also remains the only attitude survivors put constrain upon the life they have left, as well as the memory of the people and th...