Literature and Nostalgia:

Afterlives of colonialism: Nostalgia, reader’s response and the case of Noel Barber’s Tanamera

“…in Mahabubani, 1980: 9). This nostalgia permeates Tanamera through stylistic techniques such as the first-person narrator who is extradiegetic and homodiegetic; that is, a narrator who is a part of the story and also the one who is in charge of all levels of the narrative (Salmose, 2012: 209). Thus the sentiment of loss underpins colonial nostalgia, concentrating on the loss of lifestyle, an “endless round of parties, picnics, dining, tennis, and swimming”, and the socio-economic prosperity which one associates with the heyday of the empire — “the epitome of ‘dolce vita’”, as one of the readers points out.…”