Postcolonial nostalgias [electronic resource] : writing, representation and memory / Dennis Walder.
2011
PR9084 .W35 2011eb
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Title
Postcolonial nostalgias [electronic resource] : writing, representation and memory / Dennis Walder.
Author
Walder, Dennis.
ISBN
9780203840382 (electronic book)
0203840380 (electronic book)
9780415445337
0415445337
0203840380 (electronic book)
9780415445337
0415445337
Imprint
New York : Routledge, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 204 p.)
Call Number
PR9084 .W35 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.91409353
Summary
"This book offers an original and informed critique of a widespread yet often misunderstood condition -- nostalgia, a pervasive human emotion connecting people across national and historical as well as personal boundaries. Often seen as merely escapist, nostalgia also offers solace and self-understanding for those displaced by the larger movements of our time. Walder analyses the writings of some of those entangled in the aftermath of empire, tracing the hidden connections underlying their yearnings for a common identity and a homeland, and their struggles to recover their histories. Through a series of comparative reflections upon the representation in literary and related cultural forms of memory, he shows how admitting the past into the present through nostalgia enables former colonial or diasporic subjects to gain a deeper understanding of the networks of power within which they are caught in the modern world and beyond which it may yet be possible to move. Considering authors as varied as V.S Naipaul, J.G. Ballard, Doris Lessing, W.G. Sebald, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, as well as versions of 'Bushman' song, Walder pursues the often wayward, ambiguous paths of nostalgia as it has been represented beyond, but also within, Europe, so as to identify some of those processes of communal and individual experience that constitute the present and, by implication, the future."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 31.
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Postcolonial nostalgias.
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Table of Contents
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: The Persistence of Nostalgia; 2 'How is it going, Mr Naipaul?': Remembering Postcolonial Identities; 3 'The Broken String': Remembering the Homeland; 4 'Alone in a Landscape': Remembering Doris Lessing's Africa; 5 Recalling the Hidden Ends of Empire; 6 Remembering 'Bitter Histories': From Achebe to Adichie; 7 Nostalgia for the Present; 8 Endnote; Notes; Bibliography; Index.