Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation, and Memory

Walder, Dennis (2011). Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation, and Memory. Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures. Abingdon: Routledge.

URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/97804154453...

Abstract

A wide-ranging critique of the representation of memory and especially nostalgia - a condition commonly dismissed, yet which links people across personal, national and historical boundaries. Analysing the narratives of those entangled in the aftermath of empire, the author traces the hidden connections within their yearnings for a common identity and a homeland, and their struggles to recover lost histories. Considering writers as varied as V.S. Naipaul, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Doris Lessing, Antjie Krog, W.G. Sebald and J.G. Ballard, the author explores the ambiguous paths of nostalgia in the modern world.

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• Item ORO ID
• 23420
• Item Type
• Book
• ISBN
• 0-415-44533-7, 978-0-415-44533-7
• Keywords
• memory; nostalgia; diaspora; migration; homeland; melancholy; colonial; postcolonial; identity; trauma
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Research Group
• Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group (PGL)
• Copyright Holders
• © 2011 Dennis Walder
• Depositing User
• Dennis Walder