In this theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich book, Jie-Hyun Lim offers a new way to understand nationalism and its political instrumentalization of suffering, developing the concept of "victimhood nationalism" and exploring it in a range of global settings.

Jie-Hyun Lim is the CIPSH Chairholder of Global Easts, a Distinguished Professor, and founding director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University. His many books include Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing (Columbia, 2022).

Preface
1. Mnemohistory
2. Genealogy
3. Sublimation
4. Globalization
5. Nationalization
6. Dehistoricization
7. Overhistoricization
8. Juxtaposition
9. Denial
10. Forgiveness
Coda: Beyond Mnemonic Eurocentrism
Notes
Bibliography
Index