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Prologue: Seamus Heaney, Poetry's Power against Intolerance- Northern Ireland ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
Terror and Trauma
Bearing Witness 3
"The Dance"-Turkish Armenia Siamento 5
Excerpt from Cambodian Witness-Cambodia Someth May 8
Excerpt from Night-United States Elie Wiesel 10
Excerpt from All Quiet on the Western Front-Germany Erich Maria Remarque 15
Excerpt from Jarhead-United States Anthony Swofford 18
"Report from the Besieged City"-Poland Zbigniew Herbert 20
"Witnessing"-United States Debra Fontaine 22
Isolated and Apart 24
Excerpt from Dispatches-United States Michael Herr 25
Excerpt from The Gulag Archipelago-Russia Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 28
Excerpt from "In the Shadow of Freedom"-India Begum Anis Kidwai 33
Excerpt from "Waking Up"-United States Paul W. Morris 39
Coping Mechanisms 45
"Graffiti"-Argentina Julio Cortazar 46
Excerpt from The Island-South Africa Athol Fugard 51
Excerpt from The Stone Virgins-Zimbabwe Yvonne Vera 56
Excerpt from The Anecdotes of Section Chief Maimaiti-China Wang Meng 59
Excerpt from Ways of Dying-South Africa Zakes Mda 62
Excerpt from Decision-United States Kay Boyle 66
Excerpt from Fatelessness-Hungary Imre Kertesz 72
Writing the Unspeakable and the Pressure of Emptiness 84
"We All Saw It, or the View from Home"-United States A. M. Homes 85
"A View of Mountains"-United States Jonathan Schell 88
"Personae Separatae"-Italy Eugenio Montale 91
"The Dead of September 11"-United States Toni Morrison 92
"What's Not in the Heart"-Israel Abba Kovner 94
"O"-Iraq Dunya Mikhail 96
Commanding Oblivion
Surviving Survival 101
Excerpt from Double Vision: Reflections on My Heritage, Life, and Profession-United States Ben Bagdikian 102
Excerpt from We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda-United States Philip Gourevitch 108
Excerpt from Hiroshima Notes-Japan Kenzaburo Oe 117
Excerpt from Days and Memory-France Charlotte Delbo 123
"Earlier Winter"-Canada Alexander Molot 126
Landscape and Memory 128
"Nineteen Thirty Seven"-Haiti Edwidge Danticat 129
Excerpt from Blame Me on History-South Africa Bloke Modisane 131
"Recalling War"-England Robert Graves 140
Excerpt from Toba Tek Singh-Pakistan Saadat Hasan Manto 142
"A Jar of Rain"-United States John Hoppenthaler 149
Fading Memory and the Role of Art 151
"Graphite"-Russia Varlam Shalamov 152
"New York, 12 September 2001"-South Africa Breyten Breytenbach 157
Excerpt from "The Walls Do Not Fall"-United States and United Kingdom H. D. 159
"Shadow"-France Guillaume Apollinaire 164
Beating Back the Ghosts of the Past 166
Excerpt from Rise the Euphrates-United States Carol Edgarian 168
Excerpt from The Shawl-United States Cynthia Ozick 176
"Hut on a Mountain"-China Can Xue 179
Excerpt from Pnin-Russia Vladimir Nabokov 184
Excerpt from Beloved-United States Toni Morrison 189
Remembrance
Setting the Record Straight 199
Excerpt from The Other Side of Silence-India Urvashi Butalia 200
Excerpt from "This Past Must Address Its Present"-Nigeria Wole Soyinka 202
Excerpt from "The Chinese Amnesia"-China Fang Li-Zhi 208
"Speaking of Courage"-United States Tim O'Brien 211
"Under Foreign Rain (Footnotes to Defeat): XXV"-Argentina Juan Gelman 227
Excerpt from "Who Killed India"-India Khwaja Ahmad Abbas 228
"Dedication"-Lithuania, United States, and Poland Czeslaw Milosz 230
Rose-Colored Memory 232
"Memories of a Battle"-Italy Italo Calvino 233
Excerpt from Ceremony-United States Leslie Marmon Silko 240
Excerpt from The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born-Ghana Ayi Kwei Armah 246
"The Desert"-Egypt Edmond Jabes 251
"Words Fail, Memory Blurs, Life Wins"-United States Joyce Carol Oates 253
Objects of Memory 256
"Pigtail"-Poland Tadeusz Rozewicz 257
"Underneath Oblivion"-Greece Yannis Ritsos 258
"Inventory"-Germany Gunter Eich 259
Excerpt from "Requiem"-Russia Anna Akhmatova 261
"Letter to Ibrahim"-Libya Khaled Mattawa 263
Excerpt from Anil's Ghost-Sri Lanka Michael Ondaatje 265
Building Bridges 268
"When the Towers Fell"-United States Galway Kinnell 269
"On Prayer"-Poland Czeslaw Milosz 274
"Tomorrow the Past Comes"-Romania Ion Caraion 275
"Constellation of Dead Brothers"-Belgium Victor Serge 276
"Feast in Candlelight"-Iraq Fadhil Al-Azzawi 278
"A Mirror for the Twentieth Century"-Syria Adonis 279
"The Sadder Century"-Chile Pablo Neruda 280
Permissions 283
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