TY - BOOK ID - 29502020 TI - Postcolonial nostalgias : writing, representation, and memory PY - 2011 SN - 9780415445337 9780203840382 9781136891168 9781136891205 9781136891212 9780415628297 PB - New York London : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - 82.04 KW - 820 <100> KW - 820 "19" KW - 820 <100> Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth KW - Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth KW - 82.04 Literaire thema's KW - Literaire thema's KW - 820 "19" Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 KW - Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 KW - Commonwealth fiction (English) KW - English fiction KW - Nostalgia in literature KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - History and criticism KW - Nostalgie KW - Postcolonialisme KW - Littérature postcoloniale KW - Dans la littérature KW - Commonwealth KW - Thèmes, motifs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:29502020 AB - 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. ER -