Future of Memory

Richard Crownshaw is a Lecturer in English at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Jane Kilby is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford. Antony Rowland is Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Salford.

• Preface Rick Crownshaw, Jane Kilby and Antony Rowland Chapter 1. Memory: Introduction Rick Crownshaw Chapter 2. Beyond the Mnemosyne Institute Dan Stone Chapter 3. Rwanda's Bones Sara Guyer Chapter 4. The Imperial War Museum North Gaynor Bagnall and Antony Rowland Chapter 5. Memory and the Monument after 9/11 James E. Young Chapter 6. The Edge of Memory: Innovation, Trauma Susan Rubin Suleiman Chapter 7. Testimony: Introduction Antony Rowland Chapter 8. Reading Perpetrator Testimony Robert Eaglestone Chapter 9. Reading beyond the False Memory Jane Kilby Chapter 10. False Testimony Sue Vice Chapter 11. Reading Holocaust Poetry Matthew Boswell Chapter 12. Trauma: Introduction Jane Kilby Chapter 13. The Trauma Knot Roger Luckhurst Chapter 14. Trauma, Justice and the Political Unconscious Cathy Caruth Chapter 15. Trauma and Resistance: In the Shadow of No Towers Anne Whitehead Chapter 16. Facing Losses/Losing Guarantees: Meditation on Traumatic Ignorance Sharon Rosenberg Chapter 17. Activist Memories: Politics, Trauma, Pleasures Carrie Hamilton

This is an innovative, well structured and balanced collection of essays which presents a survey of theories and case studies underpinning the burgeoning field of memory studies. It addresses the 'big issues' including witnessing, trauma, memorials, the relation between personal and public memory, and generational transmission.A" * Peter Carrier, author of HOLOCAUST MONUMENTS AND NATIONAL MEMORY This is an excellent collection of essays.A" * Peter Lawson, Open University, London