The Queerness of Memory proposes ways of remembering a past that cannot be clearly seen one
which is loaded with affective confusion historical disorientation and the desire to return to
that which still hurts. Ana Hoffner's series of art works and writings that are assembled in
this book explore the politics of trauma and post '89 memory through the lens of queerness. How
to give a post-memorial account based on non-biological transnational kinship relations? How to
interrogate images of war from a distance? The author challenges the notions that fantasy and
memory are exclusively imagined or remembered scenarios: facing the trauma of others when it
is not directly experienced but transferred through documents reports or narratives requires
further processes of dis identification and performative practices like retelling rereading
restaging looking or imagining. By experimenting with techniques that stem from the reservoir
of unconscious visual impressions the book opens up questions about the embodied structure of
memory refusing the supposed dichotomy of war and peace time.