Acts of memory : cultural recall in the present / edited by Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe, and Leo Spitzer

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.