Images of loss and yearning played a crucial role in literary texts written in the later part of the twentieth century. In this original and wide-ranging study, John J. Su explores the relationship between nostalgia and ethics in novels across the English-speaking world and argues that nostalgic fantasies are crucial to the ethical visions presented by contemporary novels. 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.
Images of loss and yearning played a crucial role in literary texts written in the later part of the twentieth century. In this original and wide-ranging study, John J. Su explores the relationship between nostalgia and ethics in novels across the English-speaking world and argues that nostalgic fantasies are crucial to the ethical visions presented by contemporary novels. 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.
John J. Su is Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: nostalgia, ethics, and contemporary Anglophone literature 1. Narratives of return: locating ethics in the age of globalisation 2. Nostalgia and narrative ethics in Caribbean literature 3. 'Loss was in the order of things': recalling loss, reclaiming place in Native American fiction 4. Refiguring national character: the remains of the British estate novel 5. Appeasing an embittered history: trauma and nationhood in the writings of Achebe and Soyinka Conclusion: nostalgia and its futures.
Introduction: nostalgia, ethics, and contemporary Anglophone literature 1. Narratives of return: locating ethics in the age of globalisation 2. Nostalgia and narrative ethics in Caribbean literature 3. 'Loss was in the order of things': recalling loss, reclaiming place in Native American fiction 4. Refiguring national character: the remains of the British estate novel 5. Appeasing an embittered history: trauma and nationhood in the writings of Achebe and Soyinka Conclusion: nostalgia and its futures.
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