Sensing the meaning, working towards the facts: The second generation and memory of the Holocaust in works by Bo?ena Keff, Magdalena Tulli and Agata Tuszy?ska
This article explores the notion of a generation in the autobiographical and autofictional writing on the Shoah by children of survivors. Tippner traces the history of the term `second generation', which was coined in the 1980s, and its implications for autobiographical texts. She argues that the term not only represents a way of configuring (literary) history, but that it is also linked to a certain poetics of writing. She then analyses the distinctive features of `second generation' texts by Eva Hoffman, Bozena Keff, Magdalena Tulli, and Agata Tuszynska, highlighting typifications and domains of relevance.