Memory Art in the Contemporary World deals with the everexpanding field of transnational memory art which has emerged from a political need to come to terms with traumatic historical pasts from the Holocaust to apartheid colonialism state terror and civil war. The book focuses on the work of several contemporary artists from beyond the Northern Transatlantic including William Kentridge Vivan Sundaram Doris Salcedo Nalini Malani and Guillermo Kuitca all of whom reflect on historical situations specific to their own countries but in work which has been shown to have a transnational reach. Andreas Huyssen considers their dual investment in memories of state violence and memories of modernism as central to the affective power of their work.