Between Nostalgia and Trauma: Love, Loyalty, and Betrayal in Sindiwe Magona’s Chasing the Tails of My Father’s Cattle

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.4314/eia.v51i1.7" target="_blank" >https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.4314/eia.v51i1.7</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v51i1.7" target="_blank" >10.4314/eia.v51i1.7</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Between Nostalgia and Trauma: Love, Loyalty, and Betrayal in Sindiwe Magona’s Chasing the Tails of My Father’s Cattle

Original language description

Sindiwe Magona’s historical novel from 2015 is an impressive fictional achievement with great narrative complexity. The focus of this essay will be on the prominent aspect of nostalgia and on the close relation of trauma and nostalgia in this narrative. While nostalgic memory and traumatic memory are two different ways of remembering the past, we will show that they also have much in common by sharing a future-oriented perspective that might serve the strengthening of the self and the rebuilding of one’s identity. Despite the critical views of nostalgia in earlier scholarship, more recent publications have shown that it does not solely boost an escapist or reality-denying attitude but can also be future-oriented and stimulate approach orientation. Narration has the potential of playing the role of mediator for both nostalgia and trauma, and in Sindiwe Magona’s novel, both may be ‘re-lated’ in a positive way. Although the novel foregrounds the traumatic experience of loss and betrayal, nostalgia paves the way and opens the door for the significant process of ‘working through’ trauma, so that healing can take place.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60204 - General literature studies

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

English in Africa

ISSN

0376-8902

e-ISSN

2071-7474

Volume of the periodical

51

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

ZA - SOUTH AFRICA

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

"97–115"

UT code for WoS article

001289148400007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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