Table of Contents - 6 Preface - 8 Acknowledgements - 10 CH1. The performance of the past: memory, history, identity - 12 CH2. Re-framing memory. Between individual and collective forms of constructing the past - 36 CH3. Repetitive structures in language and history - 52 CH4. Unstuck in time. Or: the sudden presence of the past - 68 CH5. Co-memorations. Performing the past - 106 CH6. ‘Indelible memories’: the tattooed body as theatre of memory - 120 CH7. Incongruous images. ‘Before, during, and after’ the Holocaust - 148 CH8. Radio Clandestina: from oral history to the theatre - 176 CH9. Music and memory in Mozart’s Zauberflöte - 188 CH10. The many afterlives of Ivanhoe - 208 CH11. Novels and their readers, memories and their social frameworks - 236 CH12. Indigestible images. On the ethics and limits of representation - 258 CH13. ‘In these days of convulsive political change’. Discourse and display in the revolutionary museum, 1793-1815 - 288 CH14. Restitution as a means of remembrance. Evocations of the recent past in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989 - 306 CH15. European identity and the politics of remembrance - 336 About the Authors - 362 List of Illustrations - 368