“I Live, as We All Live, in the Aftermath”
Abstract
> Every person lost was a world. Even when bodies are never found, the act of looking for them is meaningful. . . . Even when exhumations “fail”—as measured by narrow scientific and legal metrics—they matter. > > Alexa Hagerty, “Melancholy” The fragmented version of Édouard Manet’s
Fields of Study & Subjects
Memory
Trauma
and Commemoration
Literature and Cultural Memory
and Testimony
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Contemporary Literature
- Volume
- 66
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 364–397
- Publication date
- 1 February 2026
- Language
- EN