Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgements xiv
6. I. THE FUTURE OF MEMORY
7. The Future of Memory: Introduction 3
8. 1 Beyond the Mnemosyne Institute: The Future of Memory after the Age of Commemoration 17
9. 2 Rwanda’s Bones 37
10. 3 The Imperial War Museum North: A Twenty-First Century Museum? 51
11. 4 Memory and the Monument after 9/11 77
12. 5 The Edge of Memory: Literary Innovation and Childhood Trauma 93
13. II. THE FUTURE OF TESTIMONY
14. The Future of Testimony: Introduction 113
15. 6 Reading Perpetrator Testimony 123
16. 7 Reading beyond the False Memory Syndrome Debates 135
17. 8 False Testimony 155
18. 9 Reading Holocaust Poetry: Genre, Authority and Identification 165
19. III. THE FUTURE OF TRAUMA
20. The Future of Trauma: Introduction 181
21. 10 The Trauma Knot 191
22. 11 Trauma, Justice, and the Political Unconscious: Arendt and Felman’s Journey to Jerusalem 207
23. 12 Trauma and Resistance in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers 233
24. 13 Facing Losses/Losing Guarantees: A Meditation on Openings to Traumatic Ignorance as a Constitutive Demand 245
25. 14 Activist Memories: The Politics of Trauma and the Pleasures of Politics 265
26. Bibliography 279
27. Notes on Contributors 299
28. Index 303