Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation and Memory

ISBN-13: 9780415628297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 214 str.

Dennis Walder

Opis

Examining prose, poetry and drama by writers including Achebe, Naipaul, Coetzee, Walcott, Krog, Fugard, and versions of Shakespeare, Walder pursues the often ambiguous paths of nostalgia as it has been represented within and beyond Europe.

Recenzje

"Walder's book is a triumph of brilliant exposition because it simplifies nothing. Readers are led sensibly, stylishly, and authoritatively through the thickets of relevant postcolonial and psychological theory, relevant twentieth-and twenty-first-century colonial history, and the focal narratives themselves." - R. Victoria Arana, College Litearture

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgments 1: Introductory: The Persistence of Nostalgia 2: ‘How is it going Mr Naipaul?’: Remembering Postcolonial Identites 3: ‘The Broken String’: Remembering the Homeland 4: ‘Alone in a Landscape’: Remembering Doris Lessing’s Africa 5: Recalling the Hidden Ends of Empire: W.G. Sebald 6: Remembering ‘bitter histories’: From Achebe to Adichie 7: Nostalgia for the Present: J.G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun Endnote Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Dennis Walder is Professor of Literature at the Open University. His publications include Dickens and Religion, Athol Fugard (whose work he has also edited), Post-Colonial Literatures in English, and the bestselling reader Literature in the Modern World.