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050	0	0	_aPR9084 _b.W35 2011
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100	1		_aWalder, Dennis.
245	1	0	_aPostcolonial nostalgias : _bwriting, representation and memory / _cby Dennis Walder.
260			_aNew York : _bRoutledge, _cc2011.
300			_ax, 204 p. ; _c24 cm.
490	0		_aRoutledge research in postcolonial literatures ; _v31
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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>"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aCommonwealth fiction (English) _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aNostalgia in literature.
650		0	_aPostcolonialism in literature.
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