Diaspora and memory : figures of displacement in contemporary literature, arts and politics / edited by Marie-Aude Baronian, Stephan Besser and Yolande Jansen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Figures of diasporic cultural production : some entries from the Palestinian lexicon / Carol Bardenstein -- Comparing to make explicit : diasporic articulations of the Herero communities in Namibia / Anette Hoffmann -- Home or away? On the connotations of homeland imaginaries in Imbros / Elif Babul -- Longing for home at home : Armenians in Istanbul / Melissa Bilal -- Through the lens of the chronotope : suggestions for a spatio-temporal perspective on diaspora / Esther Peeren -- Diaspora and nation : migration into other pasts / Andreas Huyssen -- Adopted memory : the Holocaust, postmemory, and Jewish identity in America / Pascale R. Bos -- Memory's exiles / Hanadi Loubani and Joseph Rosen -- The refusal to mourn : confronting the facts of destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne / Karolina Szmagalska -- Testimonial objects : memory, gender and transmission / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer -- Imaginary lands and figures of exile in Elia Kazan's America, America / Sylvie Rollet -- The politics of remembering and forgetting in present-day South Africa : André Brink's On the contrary / Saskia Lourens -- Memory and forgetting : traces of silence in Sarkis / Soko Phay-Vakalis -- Recollective processes and the "topography of forgetting" in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz / Silke Horstkotte.