Physical Description
x, 215 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : memory, modernity, mass culture
Prosthetic memory
The prosthetic imagination : immigration narratives and the "melting down" of difference
Remembering slavery : childhood, desire, and the interpellative power of the past
America, the Holocaust, and the mass culture of memory : the "object" of remembering
Epilogue : toward a radical practice of memory.
ISBN
0231129262
0231129270 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-207) and index.
Introduction : memory, modernity, mass culture -- Prosthetic memory -- The prosthetic imagination : immigration narratives and the "melting down" of difference -- Remembering slavery : childhood, desire, and the interpellative power of the past -- America, the Holocaust, and the mass culture of memory : the "object" of remembering -- Epilogue : toward a radical practice of memory.
