The Future Of NostalgiaBasic Books, 21. mar. 2001 - 432 sider Can one be nostalgic for the home one never had? Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? Can we know what we are nostalgic for? In the seventeenth century, Swiss doctors believed that opium, leeches, and a trek through the Alps would cure nostalgia. In 1733 a Russian commander, disgusted with the debilitating homesickness rampant among his troops, buried a soldier alive as a deterrent to nostalgia. In her new book, Svetlana Boym develops a comprehensive approach to this elusive ailment. Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities-St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague-and the imagined homelands of exiles-Benjamin, Nabokov, Mandelstam, and Brodsky. From Jurassic Park to the Totalitarian Sculpture Garden, from love letters on Kafka's grave to conversations with Hitler's impersonator, Boym unravels the threads of this global epidemic of longing and its antidotes. |
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... represented a dream of urban democracy and of the ways of inhabiting the city , making it a home , not a fortress . The contrast in rhetoric and symbolic representation between the two holidays was obvious . The emblem of Unofficial ...
... represented a dream of urban democracy and of the ways of inhabiting the city , making it a home , not a fortress . The contrast in rhetoric and symbolic representation between the two holidays was obvious . The emblem of Unofficial ...
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... represented by workers and engineers who embraced the ideals of the Khrushchev thaw , to intellectuals , humanistic scholars , writers and amateur archeologists Leningrad represented Soviet values to the extreme , embodying a ...
... represented by workers and engineers who embraced the ideals of the Khrushchev thaw , to intellectuals , humanistic scholars , writers and amateur archeologists Leningrad represented Soviet values to the extreme , embodying a ...
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... representing minority communities per- petuate ethnic and racial animosities , cyber hype notwithstanding . The Balkan ... represented the view of the Russian government , a national knee - jerk reaction . The cartoon was subversive vis ...
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PART 2 | 73 |
Moscow the Russian Rome | 91 |
Joseph Brodskys Room and a Half | 285 |
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