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

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60204 - General literature studies

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

English in Africa

ISSN

0376-8902

e-ISSN

2071-7474

Svazek periodika

51

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

ZA - Jihoafrická republika

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

"97–115"

Kód UT WoS článku

001289148400007

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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