Introduction / Mieke Bal -- I. Helpful Memories. Projected Memory: Holocaust Photographs in Personal and Public Fantasy / Marianne Hirsch. Symptoms of Discursivity: Experience, Memory, and Trauma / Ernst van Alphen. Trauma Narratives and the Remaking of the Self / Susan J. Brison. Narrative Witnessing as Memory Work: Reading Gertrud Kolmar's A Jewish Mother / Irene Kacandes -- II. Dispersed Memories. Recalling Adamastor: Literature as Cultural Memory in "White" South Africa / Jonathan Crewe. Back Through the Future: Nostalgic Memory and Critical Memory in a Refuge from Nazism / Leo Spitzer. "Subverted Memories": Countermourning as Political Action in Chile / Lessie Jo Frazier. Nostalgia for the Nation: Intellectuals and National Identity in Unified Germany / Gerd Gemunden. The Myth of the "Dernier poeme": Robert Desnos and French Cultural Memory / Katharine Conley. Trees, Forests, and the Shaping of Palestinian and Israeli Collective Memory / Carol B. Bardenstein.

III. Memories for the Present. Memories in the Museum: Preposterous Histories for Today / Mieke Bal. Monumental Seduction / Andreas Huyssen. Countermemory on the Right: The Case of Focus on the Family / Ann Burlein. Making Memory: Designs of the Present on the Past / Mary Kelley. Narratives of Recovery: Repressed Memory as Cultural Memory / Marita Sturken.