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Books
“The Generation of Postmemory: Visual Culture After the Holocaust” (New York: Columbia University Press, Spring 2012).
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“Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory” with Leo Spitzer (Berkeley: University of California Press, Spring 2010).
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Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997).
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The Mother/Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989). ChoiceOutstanding academic book of the year. Japanese translation published in 1992.
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Edited Volumes:
“Rites of Return: Diaspora Poetics and the Politics of Memory” with Nancy K. Miller (New York: Columbia University Press, Fall 2011).
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Grace Paley Writing the World, Special Issue of Contemporary Women’s Writing, with Nancy K. Miller (Fall, 2009). |
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Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust, with Irene Kacandes, MLA “Options for Teaching” Series (2004). |
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Gender and Cultural Memory, Special Issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, with Valerie Smith (28, 1, Fall 2002). |
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Time and the Literary : Essays from the 1999 English Institute, with Jay Clayton and Karen Newman (New York: Routledge, 2002). | |
The Familial Gaze (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1999). | |
Ecritures de femmes: Nouvelles cartographies, an anthology of texts with introductory essays, with MaryAnn Caws, Mary Jean Green, Ronnie Scharfman (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996). | |
Conflicts in Feminism, with Evelyn Fox Keller (New York: Routledge, 1991). | |
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The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development , with Elizabeth Abel and Elizabeth Langland (Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1983). |
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Articles
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“What’s Wrong With This Picture?: Archival Photographs in Contemporary Narratives,” (with Leo Spitzer) Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 5, 2006 (Routledge). | |
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“Introduction” and “Afterword” in Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust, with Irene Kacandes, MLA “Options for Teaching” Series (2004). |
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“Editor’s Column: Collateral Damage,” PMLA 119, 5 (October, 2004), 1209-1215. | |
“Editor’s Column: On the Way to the Forum,” PMLA 119, 1 (January 2004), 9-15. | |
“Le Témoignage postmémoriel: sur les traces de Vapniarka,” with Leo Spitzer, in LeTémoignage et l’écriture de l’histoire, ed. Jean François Chiantaretto and Régine Robin (Paris, l’Harmattan, 2003). | |
“I Took Pictures: September 2001,” in Trauma at Home, ed. Judith Greenberg (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003). | |
“War Stories: Witnessing in Retrospect,” with Leo Spitzer, in Image and Remembrance: The Holocaust in Art, ed. Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz, York (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002). | |
“Collected Memories: Lorie Novak’s Virtual Family Album,” in Inter/Faces: Women’s Visual and Performance Art, ed. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002); rpt. in S&F Online 1.3 (Winter 2003). | |
“‘We would not have come without you:’ Generations of Nostalgia,” with Leo Spitzer, American Imago 59, 3. Special Issue on “Postmemories of the Holocaust,” ed. Jay Geller (Fall 2002); rpt. in Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory, ed. Kate Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone (London: Routledge, 2003). | |
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“Nazi Photographs in Post-Holocaust Art: Gender as an Idiom of Memorialization,” in Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial, ed. Omer Bartov, Atina Grossman, Molly Noble (New York: The New Press, 2002); rpt. in Phototextualities: Intersections of Photography and Narrative, ed. Andrea Noble (University of New Mexico Press, 2003). | |
“Marked by Memory: Feminist Reflections on Trauma and Transmission,” in Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, Community, ed. Nancy K. Miller and Jason Tougaw (Urbana: Illinois University Press, 2002). | |
“Surviving Images: Holocaust Photographs and the Work of Postmemory,” Yale Journal of Criticism (Spring 2001); rpt. in Visual Culture and the Holocaust, ed. Barbie Zelizer (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press “Depth of Field” series, 2001). | |
“Material Memory: Holocaust Testimony in Post-Holocaust Art,” with Susan Suleiman, in Shaping Losses: Cultural Memory and the Holocaust, ed. Julia Epstein and Lori Lefkowitz (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001); rpt. in Representation and Remembrance: The Holocaust in Art, ed. Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz, York (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002). | |
“Jamaica Kincaid,” with Ivy Schweitzer, African American Writers, ed. Valerie Smith (New York: Scribner’s, 2000). | |
“Projected Memory: Holocaust Photographs in Personal and Public Fantasy,” in Acts of Memory, ed. Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe, Leo Spitzer (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1999); rpt. in Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers, ed. David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky (New York: Bedford/St. Martin, 2002). | |
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“Past Lives: Postmemories in Exile,” Poetics Today 17, 4 (Winter 1996), 659-686, rpt. in Exile and Creativity, ed. Susan Suleiman (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998). | |
“Feminism at the Maternal Divide: A Diary,” in The Politics of Motherhood, ed. Annelise Orleck and Diana Taylor (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1996). | |
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“Knowing Their Names: Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon,” in New Essays on Song of Solomon, ed. Valerie Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), rpt. inModern Critical Views: Song of Solomon, ed. Harold Bloom (New Haven: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999). | |
“Masking the Subject,” in The Point of Theory, ed. Mieke Bal and Inge Boer (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1994). | |
“Reading Ruth with Naomi,” in Reading Ruth, ed. Judith Kates and Gail Reimer (New York: Ballantine, 1994). | |
“Pictures of a Displaced Girlhood,” in Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question, ed. Angelika Bammer (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994); rpt. in Confessions of the Critics, ed. Aram Veeser (New York: Routledge, 1996). | |
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“Maternity and Rememory,” Motherhood and Representation, ed. Donna Bassin, Margaret Honey, Meryle Kaplan (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994). | |
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“Maternal Narratives: Cruel Enough to Stop the Blood,” in Reading Black, Reading Feminist, ed. Henry Louis Gates (New York: NAL, 1990); rpt. in Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives, Past and Present, ed. Henry Louis Gates and K. Anthony Appiah (Amistad Media Ltd). | |
“Clytemnestra’s Children: Writing (Out) the Mother’s Anger,” in Modern Critical Views: Alice Walker, ed. Harold Bloom (New Haven: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988). | |
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