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008			100507s2011 nyu b 001 0 eng
020			_a9780415445337
020			_a9780203840382
040			_aSDU
050	0	0	_aPR9084 _bW157 P 2011
100	1		_aWalder, Dennis. _9218168
245	1	0	_aPostcolonial nostalgias : _bwriting, representation and memory / _cby Dennis Walder.
260			_aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2011.
300			_a204 p.
490	0		_aRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures ; _v31
505			_aHKBU library
518			_aYT2025 M08
520			_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>"--
650		0	_aCommonwealth fiction (English) _xHistory and criticism. _9198580
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aNostalgia in literature. _9199375
650		0	_aPostcolonialism in literature. _9124696
900			_a= C.1 SDU
942			_cGBE _2lcc
999			_c111995 _d111995