Immigrant Memories of Healing

Erika Gottlieb’s narrative is a transgenerational family memoir, search for identity, and also the testimony of protagonist Eva Steinbach, thinly disguised authorial self, child survivor Holocaust in Hungary, which provides larger historical perspective personal written Canada. The satisfactory completion tasks involved these three strands life writing depends on how successfully memories can be preserved without allowing them to paralyze remembering subject. Since themes are inseparable from each other, they only result self-understanding healing author/protagonist if evolve together. At same time, intricately linked her artwork, calls an intermedial discussion book reveal graphic images further enhance protagonist’s struggle comprehend herself. While multi-layered text constructed non-linear structure, sketches paintings incorporated it employed fulfill various functions. They serve both as illustrations characters locations at times, while other occasions made structural devices. When describing or representing existing turns into ekphrastic certain points, thus multiplying interpretative possibilities opened up aesthetic impressions created. (MP)