The future of nostalgia / Svetlana Boym.

Author
Boym, Svetlana, 1959-2015 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Basic Books, ©2001.
Description
xix, 404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

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    "Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? What happens to Old World memories in a New World order? Do we even know what we are nostalgic for?" "Combining philosophical essay, aesthetic analysis and personal memoir, Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia, national myths and the personal stories of exiles. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities such as St. Petersburg, Moscow and Berlin, explores the imagined homelands of writers and artists like Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsky and Ilya Kabakov and examines the souvenir collections of ordinary immigrants. In short, Boym has written a new kind of encyclopedic meditation that captures the mysteries and rhythms of longing, a calendar that schedules out of time daydreaming and a treatise that diagnoses our global epidemic of longing and its antidotes."--Jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-389) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: Taboo on Nostalgia?
    • pt. 1. Hypochondria of the Heart: Nostalgia, History and Memory. 1. From Cured Soldiers to Incurable Romantics: Nostalgia and Progress. 2. The Angel of History: Nostalgia and Modernity. 3. The Dinosaur: Nostalgia and Popular Culture. 4. Restorative Nostalgia: Conspiracies and Return to Origins. 5. Reflective Nostalgia: Virtual Reality and Collective Memory. 6. Nostalgia and Post-Communist Memory
    • pt. 2. Cities and Re-Invented Traditions. 7. Archeology of Metropolis. 8. Moscow, the Russian Rome. 9. St. Petersburg, the Cosmopolitan Province. 10. Berlin, the Virtual Capital. 11. Europa's Eros
    • pt. 3. Exiles and Imagined Homelands. 12. On Diasporic Intimacy. 13. Vladimir Nabokov's False Passport.
    ISBN
    • 0465007074
    • 9780465007073
    • 0465007082 ((pbk.))
    • 9780465007080 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    00045454
    OCLC
    45015533
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