Guest Editors: Giusi Russo & Simon Lewis

Published: 2020-01-31

Introduction: Postcolonial Nostalgia and the Threads of Empires

Giusi Russo

115–124

Abstract

Introduction 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"

Monika Bhagat-Kennedy

125–145

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The recent dominance of Hindu nationalist politics has emboldened many in India and the diaspora to call for the realization of an essentially...

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Looking Back on Colonial Korea: Nostalgia and Anti-Nostalgia in Park Chang-wook’s "The Handmaiden"

Andrew Kim

146–161

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This article examines how South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s 2016 film The Handmaiden (Agassi) retrospects on Korea’s late colonial...

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“Die While I Can Still Remember Who I Am”: Postcolonial Nostalgia and Trauma in Tan Twan Eng’s "The Garden of Evening Mists"

Vandana Saxena

162–177

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In his novel The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng, a contemporary novelist from Malaysia, meditates on the nature of remembering...

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Apartheid and Armchair Nostalgia in America: Lisa Fugard’s "Skinner’s Drift" and Postapartheid Homecoming Novels in the Market

Erica Lombard

178–195

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The period between the mid-1990s and the late 2000s saw the emergence of a highly conventional subgenre of South African literature in the...

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Progressive Nostalgia: Restoring and Selling the Dutch “Golden Age”

Saskia Pieterse

196–211

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In the Netherlands it is often assumed that the Dutch are not prone to colonial or imperialist nostalgia. In this denial of postcolonial...

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“Keep the Balance”: The Politics of Remembering Empire in Postcolonial Britain

Astrid Rasch

212–230

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This article uses a memory studies lens to explore the inherent tension in discourses that defend empire in postcolonial Britain. It argues that...

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Notes on Contributors

231–232

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Brief biographies of the contributors to this issue of the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies.

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