Includes bibliographical references and index.

Digital memory and the problem of forgetting / Chris Locke -- Places , politics and the archiving of contemporary memory / Peter Carrier -- Reinscriptions: commemoration, restoration and the interpersonal transm ission of histories and memories under modern states in Asia and Europe / Stephan Feuchtwang -- Screening trauma: Forrest Gump, film and memor y / Susannah Radstone -- Memory, subjectivity and intimacy: the histori cal formation of the modern self and the writing of female autobiograph y / Gillian Swanson -- Children: memories, fantasies and narratives: fr om dilemma to complexity / Amal Treacher -- Memory work: the key to wom en's anxiety / Frigga Haug -- A journey through memory / Annette Kuhn - - Method in our madness: identity and power in a memory work method / M arriette Clare and Richard Johnson