TY  - BOOK
AU  - Su,John J.
TI  - Ethics and nostalgia in the contemporary novel
SN  - 0511137567
AV  - PR881 .S799 2005eb
U1  - 823.9109353 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Nostalgia in literature
KW  - Ethics in literature
KW  - Roman anglais
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Nostalgie dans la littérature
KW  - Morale dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Ethik
KW  - gnd
KW  - Nostalgie
KW  - Heimwee
KW  - gtt
KW  - Ethiek
KW  - Romans
KW  - Roman
KW  - swd
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-223) and index; 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
N2  - 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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