Performing the Past

Preface, Acknowledgements, CH1. The performance of the past: memory, history, identity, CH2. Re-framing memory. Between individual and collective forms of constructing the past, CH3. Repetitive structures in language and history, CH4. Unstuck in time. Or: the sudden presence of the past, CH5. Co-memorations. Performing the past, CH6. 'Indelible memories': the tattooed body as theatre of memory, CH7. Incongruous images. 'Before, during, and after' the Holocaust, CH8. Radio Clandestina: from oral history to the theatre, CH9. Music and memory in Mozart's Zauberfloete, CH10. The many afterlives of Ivanhoe, CH11. Novels and their readers, memories and their social frameworks, CH12. Indigestible images. On the ethics and limits of representation, CH13. 'In these days of convulsive political change'. Discourse and display in the revolutionary museum, 1793-1815, CH14. Restitution as a means of remembrance. Evocations of the recent past in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989, CH15. European identity and the politics of remembrance, About the Authors, List of Illustrations