Table of Contents

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.

Promotional Information

In this book, John J. Su identifies nostalgia as a central concern in the twentieth-century novel.

About the Author

John J. Su is Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University

Reviews

'... a theoretical examination of nostalgia in literature is both important and long overdue ... there is much ... work to be done in this field. Su's book will be helpful in making that work possible, by finally recuperating nostalgia from its pejorative connotations, and asking literary critics to turn a more generous eye on nostalgia as a literary strategy and critical concept.' The Dalhousie Review