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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: nostalgia, ethics, and contemporary Anglophone literature; CHAPTER 1 Narratives of return: locating ethics in the age of globalization; CHAPTER 2 Nostalgia and narrative...
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: nostalgia, ethics, and contemporary Anglophone literature; CHAPTER 1 Narratives of return: locating ethics in the age of globalization; CHAPTER 2 Nostalgia and narrative ethics in Caribbean literature; CHAPTER 3 "Loss was in the order of things": recalling loss, reclaiming place in Native American fiction; CHAPTER 4 Refiguring national character: the remains of the British estate novel; CHAPTER 5 Appeasing an embittered history: trauma and nationhood in the writings of Achebe and Soyinka. In this original and wide-ranging study, John J. Su explores the relationship between nostalgia and ethics in novels across the English-speaking world. From Jean Rhys to Wole Soyinka and from V.S. Naipaul to Toni Morrison, Su identifies nostalgia as a central concern in the twentieth-century novel