Prosthetic Memory : The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Memory, Modernity, Mass Culture 1(24) 1 Prosthetic Memory 25(24) 2 The Prosthetic Imagination: Immigration Narratives and the "Melting Down" of Difference 49(32) 3 Remembering Slavery: Childhood, Desire, and the Interpellative Power of the Past 81(30) 4 America, the Holocaust, and the Mass Culture of Memory: The "Object" of Remembering 111(30) Epilogue: Toward a Radical Practice of Memory 141(16) Notes 157(36) Bibliography 193(16) Index 209