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Following the July 22, 2011, Oslo bombing and shootings at the Utøya youth camp Norway became embroiled in a conflict over commemorative ethics. The memorial initially selected in an international contest, Memory Wound by Jonas Dahlgren, drew opposition from victims' families and local residents for its severe impact on the natural landscape. Plans for installation were cancelled in 2017. This controversy, we submit, must be contextualized in relation to the Norwegian justice system's handling of Anders Breivik, the perpetrator whose criminal proceedings were kept relatively secluded. We demonstrate how the design of Memory Wound and the suppression of Breivik's publicity reflect a symbolic logic traceable to a national imaginary of Norwegian exceptionalism. By interpretively aligning the use of negative space in Memory Wound with the muting of Breivik as a media event, we investigate the prescriptive force of symbols to inculcate world views. Specifically, we attend to the foreclosure of "prosthetic memory," which through media circulation allows people to engage with memory that is not primarily theirs. We acknowledge the possibility of empathy across difference that Landsberg ascribes to prosthetic memory; however, we insist that the circumstances under which solidarity might be rejected must be considered. With a dual case study, we offer a perspective on enduring assumptions about cultural identity and the rise of rightwing extremism in Northern Europe.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 activism and public campaigns -- 1 Facing Ghosts, God, and Nature: Affect, Naturalization, and the "No Más Cruces" Border Campaign -- 2 Faithful Sovereignty: Denationalizing Immigration Policy in the 2003 Pastoral Letter on Migration -- 3 Protecting LGBT Migrants: Th e Rhetoric of Identity and the Expansion of the Prison- Industrial Complex -- Part 2 identity struggles and DREAMers -- 4 Dropping the "I- Word": A Critical Examination of Contemporary Immigration Labels -- 5 "American" Children's Success and Global Competitiveness: Th e Racial Paradox of Bilingualism as Cultural Capital -- 6 Documenting Dreams: A Rhetorical Performance of Inclusive Citizenship and Collaborative Expertise -- Part 3 (hi)stories of exclusion -- 7 Constituting Enemies Through Fear: The Rhetoric of Exclusionary Nationalism in the Control of "Un- American" Immigrant Populations -- 8 Defining the Right Sort of Immigrant: Theodore Roosevelt and American Character -- 9 Immigration as Histories of Mob- ility: Personal Storytelling in the Where Are You From? Project -- Part 4 affect and media imagery -- 10 Battling Identity Warfare on the Imagined US/México Border: Performing Migrant Alien in Independence Day and Battle: Los Angeles -- 11 Affect, Emotion, and Immigration Rhetoric, or What Happens When a Minuteman Lives with Unauthorized Immigrants? -- Afterword: Tracking the "Shifting Borders" of Identity and Otherness; Productive Complications and Ethico- Political Commitments -- About the Contributors -- Index