WHAT’S HAUNTING MICHAEL ZEV GORDON? POSTMEMORY AND THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION IN GORDON’S <i>A KIND OF HAUNTING</i>

Abstract This article explores the extent to which Michael Zev Gordon’s A Kind of Haunting is a work of postmemory, a concept defined and refined by Marianne Hirsch to describe memories inherited by the generations that follow one that has experienced great collective trauma. I complicate some of the claims around the efficacy of music as a site of postmemorial aesthetics by considering the limits of musical representation in Gordon’s work via theories of spectacle and orientalism.

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Tempo
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2025-10-01
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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0040298225101101
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American and British Literature Analysis
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WHAT’S HAUNTING MICHAEL ZEV GORDON? POSTMEMORY AND THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION IN GORDON’S A KIND OF HAUNTING

Rakesh Kumar Singh
Tempo
American and British Literature Analysis
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WHAT’S HAUNTING MICHAEL ZEV GORDON? POSTMEMORY AND THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION IN GORDON’S A KIND OF HAUNTING

Rakesh Kumar Singh
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Abstract This article explores the extent to which Michael Zev Gordon’s A Kind of Haunting is a work of postmemory, a concept defined and refined by Marianne Hirsch to describe memories inherited by the generations that follow one that has experienced great collective trauma. I complicate some of the claims around the efficacy of music as a site of postmemorial aesthetics by considering the limits of musical representation in Gordon’s work via theories of spectacle and orientalism.

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WHAT’S HAUNTING MICHAEL ZEV GORDON? POSTMEMORY AND THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION IN GORDON’S <i>A KIND OF HAUNTING</i> — Rakesh Kumar Singh · Tempo (2025) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS