Feeling of Forgetting

John Corrigan is the Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor of Religion and professor of history at Florida State University. He is the author of numerous books, including Religious Intolerance, America, and the World: A History of Forgetting and Remembering, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• Introduction: Bad MemoriesChapter 1: Colonial LegaciesChapter 2: TraumaChapter 3: EmotionChapter 4: Forgetting and RememberingChapter 5: Anxiety, Erasure, and AffectChapter 6: Race, Religion, and NationConclusion: The Feeling of ForgettingAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

"A masterful analysis. . . . This is a truly innovative interdisciplinary review of scholarship in the fields of history, religious studies, psychology, literary studies, and sociology to understand the processes of memory and forgetting as communal strategies for grappling with trauma."