Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation, and Memory - Couverture rigide

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Walder, Dennis

 
9780415445337: Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation, and Memory
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ISBN 10 : 0415445337 ISBN 13 : 9780415445337
Editeur : Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415445337
ISBN 13 
9780415445337
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
204
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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ISBN 10 :  0415628296 ISBN 13 :  9780415628297
Editeur : Routledge, 2012
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