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Analyzes immigration stories, childhood desire, and the interpellative power of the past, then examines collective remembering of slavery and the Holocaust. Argues for a radical practice of memory that reconfigures community, politics, and identity through cultural forms.","PROSTHETIC MEMORY  \nTHE TRANSFORMATION  \nOF AMERICAN REMEMBRANCE IN THE AGE OF MASS CULTURE  \nALISON LANDSBERG  \nC O L U M B I A U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S • N E W Y O R K  \nC  \nCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nPublishers Since 1893  \nNew York Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 2004 Columbia University Press All rights Reserved  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nProsthetic memory :  \nthe transformation of American remembrance in the age of mass culture / Alison Landsberg  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 0-231-12926-2 (cloth : acid free paper) ISBN 0-231-12927-0 (pbk: acid free paper)  \n1. United States—Civilization—1970– 2. United States—Social conditions—1990– 3. United States—Politics and government—1989– 4. Popular culture—United States  \n5. Mass media—Social aspects—United States 6 . Community life—United States  \n7. Memory—Social aspects—United States 8. Memory—Social aspects—United States—History—Case studies 9 . Mass media—Political aspects—  \nUnited States 10 . Political culture—United States I. Title E169.12.L338 2004 306'.0973'09049—dc22 2003068814  \nCIP  \nColumbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America  \nc 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 p 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nReferences to Internet Web Sites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for Web sites that may have expired or changed since the articles were prepared.  \nDesigned by Lisa Hamm  \nFOR ELI AND LEAH  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nAcknowledgments ix  \nIntroduction: Memory, Modernity, Mass Culture 1  \n1 Prosthetic Memory 25  \n2 The Prosthetic Imagination: Immigration Narrativesand the “Melting Down” of Difference 49  \n3 Remembering Slavery: Childhood, Desire,  \nand the Interpellative Power of the Past 81  \n4 America, the Holocaust, and the Mass Culture of Memory: The “Object” of Remembering 111  \nEpilogue: Toward a Radical Practice of Memory 141  \nNotes 157  \nBibliography 193  \nIndex 209  \nACKNOWLEDGMENTS  \nI MUST BEGIN by acknowledging my mentors at the University of  \nChicago: Miriam Hansen, Lauren Berlant, and Bill Brown, each of whom pushed me to think harder than I ever had before.  \nTheir probing questions and thoughtful, generous responses to dissertation drafts enabled me to begin to develop the concepts that became the seeds of this book. I am grateful as well to the Mass Culture Workshop at the University of Chicago whose critically engaged discussions pushed my thinking in new directions. In addition, I would like to thank John Shovlin, Lisa Moses Leff, Neil Brenner, Elisabeth A. Ceppi, Jonathan Magidoff, Paul Gilmore, and Jacqueline Cooper for their difficult questions and flashes of brilliance.  \nDiscussions with members of the Department of English at Wayne State University were quite helpful in fleshing out the theoretical terrain of this project. In particular, I would like to thank Bob Burgoyne, Kathryne V. Lindberg, Donna Landry, and Gerald Maclean for their intellectual engagement. I owe a significant debt to my colleagues in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University for helping me see the ramifications of this project for historians. The intellectual environment of the department and the insights of my colleagues have improved this work immeasurably. Roy Rosenzweig, Mike O’Malley, Jack Censer, Jane Censer, Sheila ffolliott, Larry Butler, and Mack Holt offered crucial intellectual support and advice. I am grateful to Peter Dimock at Columbia University Press for taking an interest in and supporting this interdisciplinary project. Anne Routon and others at the press were consistently patient and helpful. 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