What will the module be about?

Memory is increasingly being recognized as fundamental to the formation of individual and collective identities. This module aims to investigate the role of memory in an age of globalisation powered by new communication technologies, with examples drawn from literature, film and digital media. Central questions to be investigated are: in which ways does globalisation challenge the content and function of collective memory, and how do new media co-operate with literature in shaping memories and identities? Semprún’s novel The Long Voyage (1963), González Iñárritu’s film Babel (2006), the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893) or materials of a similar nature will be studied.