@article{445891,
      recid = {445891},
      author = {Walder, Dennis.},
      title = {Postcolonial nostalgias writing, representation and memory  / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Routledge,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 204 p.)},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/445891},
}