Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: The Use and Abuse of Memory

Chapter 1. Literary Memory and Postmemory of a Traumatic Past

Chapter 2. Confronting Specters of the Past: Remembering Perpetrators

Chapter 3. Where Documentary Proof and Memory Intersect: Remembrance of the Great Famine

Chapter 4. History’s Doppelgänger: Allegorized Memory and Its Moral Imperative

Chapter 5. Palimpsests of Identity: Memory-Lite Writings of the Cultural Revolution

Epilogue: Toward an Ethics of Remembrance and Criticism

Bibliography

Index