Description: The book traces the process of creating of a new German memory of the Holocaust after the fall of the Wall. Combining theoretical analysis with historical case studies, the book revisits crucial debates and controversial issues out of which Germany's new 'memory culture' emerged as a collective project and work in progress.
Brief description: Sarah Clift is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Studies at the University of King's College, Halifax.
Review Quotes: "The appearance in English of this major text by Aleida Assmann will be welcomed by all scholars of cultural memory. Shadows of Trauma, lucidly translated by Sarah Clift, offers both an important introduction to Assmann's influential thinking about how individuals and societies recall traumatic pasts and a sustained exploration of the memory of the Holocaust and World War II in the German context."-----Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization