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Ethics and nostalgia in the contemporary novel / John J. Su.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 226 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511137567
  • 9780511137563
  • 0511134428
  • 9780511134425
  • 0511135394
  • 9780511135392
  • 9780511485398
  • 0511485395
  • 1280284218
  • 9781280284212
  • 0511201761
  • 9780511201769
  • 0511311885
  • 9780511311888
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethics and nostalgia in the contemporary novel.DDC classification:
  • 823.9109353 22
LOC classification:
  • PR881 .S799 2005eb
Other classification:
  • 17.90
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-223) and index.

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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.

English.

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