Visceral Memory
One needn’t live through an experience to store it within one’s bones.
Japanese American children born in the late 1940s and early 1950s inherited not only the trauma of their families’ incarceration in American concentration camps, but by the memory of the bright atomic flashes that ended World War II. Even if one didn't have family in Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the retinas of the imagination were irradicably seared.
One needn’t live through an experience to store it within one’s bones.
Japanese American children born in the late 1940s and early 1950s inherited not only the trauma of their families’ incarceration in American concentration camps, but by the memory of the bright atomic flashes that ended World War II. Even if one didn't have family in Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the retinas of the imagination were irradicably seared.
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