Susan Rubin Suleiman. Crises of Memory and the Second World War.(Book review)

Biography | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

Susan Rubin Suleiman. Crises of Memory and the Second World War. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2006. x + 286 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-02206-5, $29.95.

With Crises of Memory and the Second World War, Susan Rubin Suleiman offers an unusually judicious and humane contribution to a number of highly contentious and frequently polemical debates. Her point of departure is the insight that "how we view ourselves, and how we represent ourselves to others, is indissociable from the stories we tell about our past" (1). The chapters in this book focus on "specific instances where individual ...

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