PAULINE BAER DE PÉRIGNON’S LA COLLECTION DISPARUE OR A POSTMEMORY QUEST/INVESTIGATION
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In La collection disparue (2021), Pauline Baer de Pérignon explores the traces of a hidden family past - that of the Nazi looting of her ancestors’ possessions during the Second World War. Through her investigation, she brings to light an intergenerational silence surrounding her ancestors’ Jewish identity. This narrative is fully situated within a postmemory approach, in the sense defined by Marianne Hirsch, but also within the dynamic of writing and inquiry analyzed by Aurélie Barjonet and Dominique Viart in their work on descendants and family memory. The discovery of the lost family collection, the family’s Jewish identity, archival research, and the construction of the narrative allow the author to embrace a memory transmitted indirectly but felt with emotional intensity. This text proposes to analyze how Pauline de Baer de Pérignon in La Collection disparue weaves together postmemory and filial quest, investigation, and rediscovered Jewishness.
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