| Focused on the notion of nostalgia and its relationship with modernity, I study the life trajectories of German writer Walter Benjamin and the last emperor of China, Puyi, as reflected in literary and cinematic texts produced by or about them. I critically examine the creative potential of nostalgia as a possible resistance against the worlding of capitalism that travels to different corners of the world through colonial expansion and globalization. Through this, I argue that nostalgia is a decolonial narrative strategy. |
