Introduction : extremities / Nancy K. Miller and Jason Tougaw -- Consuming trauma, or, The pleasures of merely circulating / Patricia Yaeger -- Between the extreme and the everyday : Ruth Klüger's traumatic realism / Michael Rothberg -- Marked by memory : feminist reflections on trauma and transmission / Marianne Hirsch -- Orphaned memories, foster-writing, phantom pain : the Fragments affair / Ross Chambers -- Prosopopoeia and Holocaust poetry in English : the case of Sylvia Plath / Susan Gubar -- Holocaust testimony, national memory / Orly Lubin -- Unbearable witness : toward a politics of listening / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun -- Testimony and the subjects of AIDS memoirs / Jason Tougaw -- Off my chest / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Memory stains : Annie Ernaux's Shame / Nancy K. Miller -- After Lot's daughters : Kathryn Harrison and the making of memory / Laura Frost -- The Aryan boy / Wayne Koestenbaum -- A palinode on photography and the transsexual real / Jay Prosser -- Writing wrong / Sandra M. Gilbert