LEADER 04046oam 2200685I 450 001 9910807104403321 005 20230725025242.0 010 $a1-136-89120-X 010 $a1-136-89121-8 010 $a1-282-89845-0 010 $a9786612898457 010 $a0-203-84038-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203840382 035 $a(CKB)2670000000052534 035 $a(EBL)593006 035 $a(OCoLC)680039307 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000425777 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11310546 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000425777 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10371004 035 $a(PQKB)11108276 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC593006 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL593006 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10427997 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL289845 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000052534 100 $a20180706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPostcolonial nostalgias $ewriting, representation and memory /$fDennis Walder 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (215 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures ;$v31 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-62829-6 311 $a0-415-44533-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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 330 $a"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.

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