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wm117m04z03	Sarah Elizabeth Coogan	Chosen Homelands: Nostalgia and National Identity in the British and Irish Modernist Epic	2020		.txt	text/plain	585	18	28	The recent surge of nostalgia in American politics and popular culture has motivated scholars across humanities disciplines to ask whether the emotion can be a means of creatively redefining national identity, or if it inevitably reinforces reactionary visions of cultural heritage. The text juxtaposes everyday experience with ancient epic, thereby sidestepping a xenophobic account of national heritage while retaining the resonance of mythic parallels; in other words, it rejects an unhealthy obsession with the past through its use of nostalgia.	cache/wm117m04z03.txt	txt/wm117m04z03.txt