Nancy J Peterson Against Amnesia: C...

Nancy J Peterson Against Amnesia: Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises of Historical Memory. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P 2001 183 pp + notes. ISBN 0-8122-3594-0 $4650

Nancy J Peterson's Against Amnesia: Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises of Historical Memory prosecutes above all, to articulate workable ways of thinking about history in the wake of a certain number of of the many "wounds"--the dispossession of Native Americans, slavery, the Holocaust, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, among others--suffered in fresh times. Drawing on ...