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  1. Postcolonial nostalgias
    writing, representation, and memory
    Author: Walder, Dennis
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York [u.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... more

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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    "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.

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780415445337; 9780415628297
    RVK Categories: HP 1125
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 31
    Subjects: Commonwealth fiction (English) / History and criticism; English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; Nostalgia in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Englisch; Nostalgie; Postkoloniale Literatur
    Scope: X, 204 S.
    Notes:

    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Postcolonial nostalgias
    writing, representation, and memory
    Author: Walder, Dennis
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York [u.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... more

    Location:
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    "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.

    "--Provided by publisher

     
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780415445337; 9780415628297
    RVK Categories: HP 1125
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 31
    Subjects: Commonwealth fiction (English) / History and criticism; English fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; Nostalgia in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Englisch; Nostalgie; Postkoloniale Literatur
    Scope: X, 204 S.
    Notes:

    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

    Includes bibliographical references and index