Remembering Rousseau: nostalgia and the responsibilities of the self

Walder, Dennis (2005). Remembering Rousseau: nostalgia and the responsibilities of the self. Third World Quarterly, 26(3) pp. 423–430.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590500033651

Abstract

Using Douanier Rousseau's La Bohemienne (1897) as starting-point, an exploration of how personal memory intersects with cultural history. Seeking out the implications of 'reading' a remembered image from the colonial past in the present, while thinking through what constitutes 'home' for former colonials, hovering between detachment and com plicity, yet provoked by the amorality and amnesia of postmodernist criticism.

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• Item ORO ID
• 3492
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 0143-6597
• Keywords
• Douanier Rousseau; memory and exile; South African memories; representations of the Maghreb; Orientalism; La Bohemienne
• 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)
• Depositing User
• Dennis Walder