Notes Toward a Theory of Nostalgia
Childhood and the Evocation of the Past in Two European "Heritage" Films
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7932033 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Muller (0000-0002-1949-8932, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 739-760 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2007.0008 |
| OpenAlex | W2044444488 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 9 |
This essay centers on the moral and socio-political dimensions of the European colonial experience as represented in its historical aspect in two so-called "heritage" films, Claire Denis' Chocolat (France, 1988) and Caroline Link's Nowhere in Africa (Germany, 2002). The real weight of this argument, however, falls on the specification of nostalgia, on accounting for its conceptual history and diagnosing its somatic effects in these works and elsewhere in literature, history, philosophy, and film. Contra Emmanuel Kant, Linda Hutcheon, Svetlana Boym, and others, nostalgia is here understood as comprised of a unique combination of utopianism, "temporal ambivalence," and conduciveness to translation. The operation and interaction of these constitutive properties is then explored alongside a nuanced reading of the beliefs, desires, and actions of France and Regina, the two girl protagonists at the narrative and moral-philosophical centers of, respectively, Denis's and Link's films
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Argument (complex analysis) · Art · Colonialism · Epistemology · Evocation · Film theory · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process) · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |