Remembering Rousseau
Nostalgia and the responsibilities of the self
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11187279 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dennis Walder (Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 423-430 |
| Publication date | 2005-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Third World Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-6597 • E-ISSN: 1360-2241 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01436590500033651 |
| OpenAlex | W2073170958 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
In this paper I aim to use Douanier Rousseau's La Bohémienne (1897) as the starting point for an exploration of how personal memory intersects with cultural history, in terms of the relations between the present and the past, and the individual and the community, as complexly determined by separation, distance and exile. Literary and cultural criticism in recent years has been steadily drawn towards an exploration of boundaries, which has allowed an expansion of ‘connections’ across literatures, without however always taking into account the implications of that expansion. I want to seek out some of the implications of ‘reading’ a remembered image from the colonial past in the present, while thinking about what constitutes ‘home’ for former colonials like myself, hovering between detachment and complicity, yet provoked by the amorality and amnesia of postmodernist criticism
Aesthetics · Amnesia · Art · Colonialism · Complicity · Criticism · Literature · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process · Sociology · French Literature and Critical Theory · History · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.05 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |