This edited collection explores the political dimensions of cultural memory work in its varied forms of representation, from public monuments to literary texts. Addressing the different ways that cultural texts represent the past in the present, the collection demonstrates that cultural memory is something actively made: the site of a struggle over meanings that can serve a range of political and cultural purposes.

The collection offers essays that discuss the politics of cultural memory both in theory and in practice, and features work by some of the leading scholars in the field...