World Memory

JILL BENNETT is a Senior Lecturer in Art Theory at the University of New South Wales. She has published widely on all aspects of visual culture including contemporary art, medieval pornography, theories of body and affect and trauma representation. She has curated a number of exhibitions including Telling Tales (Sydney, 1998; Graz, 1999) which addressed trauma and memory. She is currently completing a book on contemporary art, trauma and conflict. - ROSANNE KENNEDY teaches gender and cultural studies in the School of Humanities at Australian National University. She has published several articles on trauma and testimony in relation to the Stolen Generations, and is currently writing a book on trauma, memory and Australian Aboriginal historiography. She has also published widely in the field of law and cultural studies, and is editor (with Katherine T. Bartlett) of Feminist Legal Theory: Readings in Law and Gender.

'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

• Introduction; J.Bennett & R.Kennedy Trauma and memory: A new imaginary of temporality; A.Huyssen Bad memories: The poetics of memory and the difference of culture; D.Losche Anthropology as eulogy: On loss, lies and license; J.Loureide Biddle Re-collecting Proskurov; A.Brennan VERNACULAR LANGUAGES OF TRAUMA Language as a skin; A.Scott Aged bodies as sites of remembrance: Colonial memories in diaspora; S.Soo-Jin Lee Re-membering bodies, producing histories: Holocaust survivor narrative and Truth and Reconciliation Commission testimony; H.Grunebaum &Y.Henri Constructing shared histories: Stolen Generations testimony, narrative therapy and address; R.Kennedy & T.Wilson AESTHETIC LANGUAGES OF TRAUMA Bearing witness to ripples of pain; F.C.Ross Impossible memories and the history of trauma; E.Faye Tenebrae after September 11: Art, empathy, and the global politics of belonging; J.Bennett Wounds of repetition in the age of the digital: Chris Marker's cinematic ghosts; T.Murray Index