Prosthetic memory : the transformation of American remembrance in the age of mass culture /
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2004.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=107227 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Memory, modernity, mass culture.
- Prosthetic memory.
- The prosthetic imagination: immigration narratives and the "melting down" of difference.
- Remembering slavery: childhood, desire, and the interpellative power of the past.
- America, the Holocaust, and the mass culture of memory: the "object" of remembering.
- Epilogue: Toward a radical practice of memory.