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Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation and Memory: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Autor Dennis Walder
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 mar 2012
This book offers an original and informed critique of a widespread, yet often misunderstood, condition — nostalgia, a pervasive human emotion connecting people across national, historical, and personal boundaries. 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415628297
ISBN-10: 0415628296
Pagini: 214
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface and Acknowledgments 1: Introductory: The Persistence of Nostalgia 2: ‘How is it going Mr Naipaul?’: Remembering Postcolonial Identites 3: ‘The Broken String’: Remembering the Homeland 4: ‘Alone in a Landscape’: Remembering Doris Lessing’s Africa 5: Recalling the Hidden Ends of Empire: W.G. Sebald 6: Remembering ‘bitter histories’: From Achebe to Adichie 7: Nostalgia for the Present: J.G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun Endnote Notes Bibliography Index

Notă biografică

Dennis Walder is Professor of Literature at the Open University. His publications include Dickens and Religion, Athol Fugard (whose work he has also edited), Post-Colonial Literatures in English, and the bestselling reader Literature in the Modern World.

Recenzii

"Postcolonial Nostalgias is an ambitious and riveting work of literary criticism, spanning more than a century of realistic writing and thematically connecting postcolonial representations of Trinidad/West Indies, the Islamic World, India, Japan England, South Africa, Germany, Nigeria, and China – historically, psychologically, and aesthetically…the indisputable scholarly value rest[s] on its author’s wide knowledge of contemporary literature, expert command of history, impressive handling of theory, and delightfully readable prose." –R. Victoria Arana, Howard University, College Literature
" richly resourceful and insightful." --Ashok K Mohapatra, Sambalpur University, Postcolonial Text
"Dennis Walder’s study is refreshingly different. Not only does it exhort a re-evaluation of the critical and reflective functions of nostalgic memory, but places this enterprise within a literary and historical framework that goes beyond typical postcolonial fare." --Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Descriere

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.