The future of the past: Countermemory and postmemory in contemporary American post-holocaust narratives

Collective memory cannot be divorced from its construction in culture. As the Broadway version of "The Diary of Anne Frank did so phenomenally, plays, novels and movies generate cultural perceptions in ways that are particularly problematic and that stimulate further media reworking of the memory. Sicher attempts to illustrate this with material which is often disturbing for its provocative or shocking use of Holocaust memories.