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

Lee Bernstein, Alison Landsberg

The History Teacher · 2005 · 967 citations · 0 references

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Introduction: Memory, Modernity, Mass Culture1. Prosthetic Memory2. The Prosthetic Imagination: Immigration Narratives and the 'Melting Down' of Difference3. Remembering Slavery: Childhood, Desire, and the Interpellative Power of the Past4. America, the Holocaust, and the Mass Culture of Memory: The 'Object' of RememberingEpilogue: Towards a Radical Practice of Memory