02169cam a22002294a 4500008004100000020001800041020001800059040000800077050002400085100002000109245008700129260003400216300001100250490005700261505001700318518001500335520140800350650005901758650005801817650002901875650003501904100507s2011    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a9780415445337  a9780203840382  aSDU00aPR9084bW157 P 20111 aWalder, Dennis.10aPostcolonial nostalgias :bwriting, representation and memory /cby Dennis Walder.  aNew York :bRoutledge,c2011.  a204 p.0 aRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures ;v31  aHKBU library  aYT2025 M08  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.</P>"-- 0aCommonwealth fiction (English)xHistory and criticism. 0aEnglish fictiony20th centuryxHistory and criticism. 0aNostalgia in literature. 0aPostcolonialism in literature.