We are what Marianne Hirsch calls ‘the generation of post-memory’. Exposed to traumatic experiences of years that preceded our birth, we live the trauma perhaps experienced by a parent, a friend, a city as our own. The loss of a city due to an earthquake means many things to many people like a lapse in city planning or an ‘act of God’, but it is also the site for the creation of post-memory and ghosts that never abandon the city even if the living do.
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