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Journal Article
Between Nostalgia and Trauma: Love, Loyalty, and Betrayal in Sindiwe Magona's Chasing the Tails of My Father's Cattle
2024
Overview
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.
