Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present Book

	Introduction
I	Helpful Memories
	Projected Memory: Holocaust Photographs in Personal and Public Fantasy	3
	Symptoms of Discursivity: Experience, Memory, and Trauma	24
	Trauma Narratives and the Remaking of the Self	39
	Narrative Witnessing as Memory Work: Reading Gertrud Kolmar's A Jewish Mother	55
II	Dispersed Memories
	Recalling Adamastor: Literature as Cultural Memory in "White" South Africa	75
	Back Through the Future: Nostalgic Memory and Critical Memory in a Refuge from Nazism	87
	"Subverted Memories": Countermourning as Political Action in Chile	105
	Nostalgia for the Nation: Intellectuals and National Identity in Unified Germany	120
	The Myth of the "Dernier poeme": Robert Desnos and French Cultural Memory	134
	Trees, Forests, and the Shaping of Palestinian and Israeli Collective Memory	148
III	Memories for the Present
	Memories in the Museum: Preposterous Histories for Today	171
	Monumental Seduction	191
	Countermemory on the Right: The Case of Focus on the Family	208
	Making Memory: Designs of the Present on the Past	218
	Narratives of Recovery: Repressed Memory as Cultural Memory	231
	List of Contributors	249