Published: 2020-01-31
Introduction: Postcolonial Nostalgia and the Threads of Empires
115–124
AbstractIntroduction to the special issue of the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies entitled "Postcolonial Nostalgia and the...
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The Mughal Past and the Politics of Memorialization in Ahmed Ali's "Twilight in Delhi"
125–145
AbstractThe recent dominance of Hindu nationalist politics has emboldened many in India and the diaspora to call for the realization of an essentially...
Looking Back on Colonial Korea: Nostalgia and Anti-Nostalgia in Park Chang-wook’s "The Handmaiden"
146–161
AbstractThis article examines how South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s 2016 film The Handmaiden (Agassi) retrospects on Korea’s late colonial...
“Die While I Can Still Remember Who I Am”: Postcolonial Nostalgia and Trauma in Tan Twan Eng’s "The Garden of Evening Mists"
162–177
AbstractIn his novel The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng, a contemporary novelist from Malaysia, meditates on the nature of remembering...
Apartheid and Armchair Nostalgia in America: Lisa Fugard’s "Skinner’s Drift" and Postapartheid Homecoming Novels in the Market
178–195
AbstractThe period between the mid-1990s and the late 2000s saw the emergence of a highly conventional subgenre of South African literature in the...
Progressive Nostalgia: Restoring and Selling the Dutch “Golden Age”
196–211
AbstractIn the Netherlands it is often assumed that the Dutch are not prone to colonial or imperialist nostalgia. In this denial of postcolonial...
“Keep the Balance”: The Politics of Remembering Empire in Postcolonial Britain
212–230
AbstractThis article uses a memory studies lens to explore the inherent tension in discourses that defend empire in postcolonial Britain. It argues that...
Notes on Contributors
231–232
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