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This essay offers a reflection on the concepts of identity and personal
narrative, a line of argument that is closely interlaced with a subject‘s capacity to
self-representation. As self-representation is necessarily composed upon
remembrance processes, the question of memory as an element that directly
influences the formation of an individual‘s identity becomes an emergent topic.
Bearing this objective in mind, I shall highlight the notion of biographic continuity,
the ability to elaborate a personal narrative, as an essential prerogative to attain a
sense of identitary cohesion and coherence. On the other hand, I will argue that not
only experienced memories play a key role in this process; intermediated, received
narratives from the past, memories transmitted either symbolically or by elder
members of the group or, what has been meanwhile termed ―postmemory‖, also
influence the development of an individual‘s identitary map. This theoretical
framework will be illustrated with the novel Paul Schatz im Uhrenkasten, written by
German post-Holocaust author Jan Koneffke.
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Memória comunicativa Vergangenheitsbewältigung Identidade (Pós)memória Representação do Holocausto Communicative memory Identity (Post)memory Holocaust representation
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Instituto Politécnico do Porto. Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto