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Dealing with ancestral guilt through images: A journey through silence, identity, culture and family’s connexions in Nora Krug’s Belonging

van Nuffel d'Heynsbroeck, Justine
(2024)

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Supervisors
Bragard, Véronique
Faculty
Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres
Degree label
Master [120] en langues et lettres modernes, orientation germaniques, à finalité didactique
Abstract
This study examines the persistent silence within German culture and family dynamics, a silence that paralyzes post-war generations and hinders the construction of an identity grounded in a true sense of belonging. Drawing on the theories of postmemory and ancestral guilt, the analysis explores the evolution of identity perception as depicted by Nora Krug in her book Belonging, with particular attention to both the form and content of the work. The aim of this study is to demonstrate that deconstructing taboos through questioning contributes to the rediscovery of the sense of belonging, which Krug refers to as Heimat. This process, far from undermining the work of memory and the necessary re-examination at both institutional and personal levels, is crucial to preventing the recurrence of past atrocities.