Physical Description
xvii, 250 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Projected memory : Holocaust photographs in personal and public fantasy / Marianne Hirsch
Symptoms of discursivity : experience, memory, and trauma / Ernst Van Alphen
Trauma narratives and the remaking of the self / Susan J. Brison
Narrative witnessing as memory work : reading Gertrud Kolmar's A Jewish mother / Irene Kacandes
Recalling Adamastor : literature as cultural memory in "White" South Africa / Jonathan Crewe
Back through the future : nostalgic memory and critical memory in a refuge from Nazism / Leo Spitzer
"Subverted memories" : countermourning as political action in Chile / Lessie Jo Frazier
Nostalgia for the nation : intellectuals and national identity in unified Germany / Gerd Gemünden
The myth of the "dernier poème" : Robert Desnos and French cultural memory / Katharine Conley
Trees, forests, and the shaping of Palestinian and Israeli collective memory / Carol B. Bardenstein
Memories in the museum : preposterous histories for today / Mieke Bal
Monumental seduction / Andreas Huyssen
Countermemory on the right : the case of focus on the family / Ann Burlein
Making memory : designs of the present on the past / Mary Kelley
Narratives of recovery : repressed memory as cultural memory / Marita Sturken.
Other Authors/Editors
Bal, Mieke, 1946-
Crewe, Jonathan V.
Spitzer, Leo, 1939-
ISBN
0874518865
087451889X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Projected memory : Holocaust photographs in personal and public fantasy / Marianne Hirsch -- Symptoms of discursivity : experience, memory, and trauma / Ernst Van Alphen -- Trauma narratives and the remaking of the self / Susan J. Brison -- Narrative witnessing as memory work : reading Gertrud Kolmar's A Jewish mother / Irene Kacandes -- Recalling Adamastor : literature as cultural memory in "White" South Africa / Jonathan Crewe -- Back through the future : nostalgic memory and critical memory in a refuge from Nazism / Leo Spitzer -- "Subverted memories" : countermourning as political action in Chile / Lessie Jo Frazier -- Nostalgia for the nation : intellectuals and national identity in unified Germany / Gerd Gemünden -- The myth of the "dernier poème" : Robert Desnos and French cultural memory / Katharine Conley -- Trees, forests, and the shaping of Palestinian and Israeli collective memory / Carol B. Bardenstein -- Memories in the museum : preposterous histories for today / Mieke Bal -- Monumental seduction / Andreas Huyssen -- Countermemory on the right : the case of focus on the family / Ann Burlein -- Making memory : designs of the present on the past / Mary Kelley -- Narratives of recovery : repressed memory as cultural memory / Marita Sturken.