World Memory

Personal Trajectories in Global Time

By: J. Bennett (Editor), R. Kennedy (Editor)

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Hardcover | 17 December 2002 | Edition Number 1

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How do we account for experiences of trauma and memory in multicultural and globalized societies? Moving contemporary trauma studies beyond its focus on Euro-American events and points of view, World Memoryblends the study of trauma and memory with postcolonial perspectives to explore a range of traumatic personal and socio-historical experiences: racism, injury, loss, sexual abuse, colonization, migration, Apartheid, the Holocaust and September 11th 2001. It argues that the effect of these phenomena can be best understood through an analysis of the personal trajectories of those involved and the ways in which these intersect - and often compete - with larger cultural formations. Examining a diversity of psychoanalytic, artistic, literary, cinematic and vernacular accounts of trauma, the writers collectively reveal what happens when languaes of memory traverse boundaries of culture, space and time.

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'An excellent, deeply absorbing volume.' - Professor Stephen Frosh, Birkbeck College, University of London

'A significant affirmation and expansion of the new field of trauma and memory studies, World Memory inscribes local cases into global contexts. Its rich theoretical essays draw on psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, personal testimony and aesthetic and critical discourses to make convincing claims for the broad applicability and explanatory power of the notion of world memory. Readers will find that this book's impressive comparative scope yields surprising insights into the possibilities and the limits of identification and empathy.' - Marianne Hirsch, Dartmouth College, USA

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List of Illustration	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Trauma and Memory: A New Imaginary of Temporality	p. 16
Bad Memories: The Poetics of Memory and the Difference of Culture	p. 30
Anthropology as Eulogy: On Loss, Lies and License	p. 43
Re-collecting Proskurov	p. 59
Vernacular Languages of Trauma	p. 69
Language as a Skin	p. 71
Aged Bodies as Sites of Remembrance: Colonial Memories in Diaspora	p. 87
Re-membering Bodies, Producing Histories: Holocaust Survivor Narrative and Truth and Reconciliation Commission Testimony	p. 101
Constructing Shared Histories: Stolen Generations Testimony, Narrative Therapy and Address	p. 119
Aesthetic Languages of Trauma	p. 141
Bearing Witness to Ripples of Pain	p. 143
Impossible Memories and the History of Trauma	p. 160
Tenebrae after September 11: Art, Empathy, and the Global Politics of Belonging	p. 177
Wounds of Repetition in the Age of the Digital: Chris Marker's Cinematic Ghosts	p. 195
References	p. 214
Index	p. 225
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