revista de teoria da história 27|2  2024 296 I N T E R V I E W DILEMAS OF POSTMEMORY INTERVIEW WITH Marianne Hirsch FERNANDO GOMES GARCIA Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre | Rio Grande do Sul | Brazil eroestrato@gmail.com orcid.org/0000-0002-0211-8999 SABRINA COSTA BRAGA Universidade Federal de Goiás Goiânia | Goiás | Brazil sabrinacostabraga94@gmail.com orcid.org/0000-0001-9164-7560 Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature the Institute for on the Study if Sexuality and Gender at Columbia University. Hirsch was born in Romania in 1949, she immigrated to the United States in 1962 and studied at Brown University. She combines feminist theory and memory studies, particularly the transmission of memories of violence across generations. She is a leading scholar in her field and best known for coining the term postmemory in 1990, when writing about Art Spiegelman. Some of her important writings include the article “Surviving Images: Holocaust Photographs and the Work of Postmemory” (2001), the books The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (2012) and Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory (1997). She has also written books in collaboration with Leo Spitzer, such as Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (2010) and School Photos in Liqiuid Time: Reframing Difference (2019). The concept of postmemory, as articulated by Marianne Hirsch (1992, 2008, 2012), explores the intergenerational transmission of trauma, particularly focusing on the relationship between second- or third-generation descendants of traumatic historical events that predate their birth. These traumatic events are conveyed to subsequent generations through familial and cultural channels. The opacity of deep memory—resistant to resolution through conventional historical narratives or representational forms—underscores trauma’s enduring intellectual and emotional complexity. Eva Hoffman (2004, 10-13), herself a daughter of Holocaust survivors, reflects on how her engagement with writing brought the Holocaust from a latent, nebulous presence to a defining theme and undeniable influence on her life. Through this process, personal