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This essay elaborates on my presentation on nostalgia and postcolonial literature, as presented at the 8th symposium of the Ghent Africa Platform held in autumn 2014. During this presentation I made a short analysis of how Svetlana Boym’s ideas on nostalgia, as expressed in her book  Nostalgia for the Future , can be used to analyse Erwin Mortier’s memories of traveling, as noted in his book  Afscheid van Congo: met Jef Geeraerts terug naar de evenaar (Goodbye to Congo: back to the equator with Jef Geeraerts) . During my presentation I also introduced the relation between nostalgia and (aesthetic) vitalism. In this paper I will elaborate on the relation between nostalgia and vitalism as a phenomenon within (post)colonial literature.

The relation between nostalgia and vitalism in ‘Afscheid van Congo: met Jef Geeraerts terug naar de evenaar’ by Erwin Mortier