Introduction: Invisible and Invented Archives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. List of Abbreviations xv
5. Introduction: Invisible and Invented Archives 1
6. Part I Documenting the Past: The Artist as Witness
7. Introduction to Part I 21
8. 1. Outside the Frame: Josef Nassy’s Visual Diary of Internment in Nazi Germany 27
9. 2. Broken Citizenship: Survivor Memoirs by Hans J. Massaquoi, Theodor Michael, and John William 61
10. Part II Imagining the Past: The Artist as Historian
11. Introduction to Part II 91
12. 3. Jazz Fiction and the Holocaust: Testimonial Objects in the Novels of John A. Williams and Esi Edugyan 98
13. 4. Performing to Survive: “Queen of the Trumpet” Valaida Snow in Fiction, Drama, and Graphic Narrative 128
14. 5. Postmemorial Landscapes of Black Europe: Maud Sulter’s Alpine Photomontages 155
15. Coda: Dancing Out History in Oxana Chi’s Durch Gärten Tanzen 186
16. Notes 195
17. Bibliography 227
18. Index 241