Memory in a Global Age: Discourses, Practices and Trajectories

by Aleida Assmann (Editor)

Preface Note on the Contributors Introduction PART WITNESSING IN A GLOBAL ARENA Addressing Painful Apologies as a New Practice in International Relations; C.Daase Australian Memory and the Apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous People; D.Celermajer & D.Moses PART MORAL CLAIMS AND UNIVERSAL NORMS The Past in the Memories of State Violence in Contemporary Latin America; E.Jelin Vietnam, the New Left and the How the Cold War Changed Discourse on Genocide; B.Molden The Holocaust - a Global Memory? Extensions and Limits of a New Memory Community; A.Assmann PART GLOBAL MEMORIES AND TRANS-NATIONAL IDENTITIES Globalization, Universalization, and the Erosion of Cultural Memory; J.Assmann Victimhood Nationalism in Contested National Mourning and Global Accountability; J.H.Lim Remembering History and Memory in Post-Cold War Japan; S.Conrad PART GLOBAL ICONS AND CULTURAL SYMBOLS Globalizing Memory in a Divided Bruce Lee in Mostar; G.Bolton & N.Muzurovic 'Fragments of Reminiscence': Popular Music as a Carrier of Global Memory; A.Sobral Neda - The Career of a Global Image; A.Assmann & C.Assmann

268 pages, Paperback

First published July 21, 2010

About the author

Aleida Assmann is a Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory in the Department of Literature, Art and Media at the University of Konstanz in Germany. She has also been a guest lecturer at universities including Rice, Princeton, Yale, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of several German-language books and has received international recognition for her scholarship, including the Max-Planck-Research Prize for History and Memory in 2009 and an Honorary Doctorate from the Theological Faculty at the University of Oslo in 2008.