The Future of NostalgiaBasic Books, 5. aug. 2008 - 352 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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... homeland, for the sake of which one is ready to die or kill. Unreflected nostalgia breeds monsters.Yet the sentiment itself, the mourning of displacement and temporal irreversibility, is at the very core of the modern condition. The ...
... homeland, for the sake of which one is ready to die or kill. Unreflected nostalgia breeds monsters.Yet the sentiment itself, the mourning of displacement and temporal irreversibility, is at the very core of the modern condition. The ...
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... hero is asleep as he floats in darkness to his homeland and sunrise comes precisely when his boat reaches the shores of Ithaca.12 Penelope's labor of love and endurance—the cloth that she weaves From Cured Soldiers to Incurable Romantics.
... hero is asleep as he floats in darkness to his homeland and sunrise comes precisely when his boat reaches the shores of Ithaca.12 Penelope's labor of love and endurance—the cloth that she weaves From Cured Soldiers to Incurable Romantics.
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... homeland nor his divine protectress. Even his faithful and long-suffering wife does not see him for who he is. Only his childhood nurse notices the scar on the hero's foot—the tentative marker of physical identity. Odysseus has to prove ...
... homeland nor his divine protectress. Even his faithful and long-suffering wife does not see him for who he is. Only his childhood nurse notices the scar on the hero's foot—the tentative marker of physical identity. Odysseus has to prove ...
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... homeland, this poem is a long-distance romance between two “internal immigrants,” displaced in their own native soil. The first generation of romantics were not politicians; their nostalgic world view was weltanschauung, not real ...
... homeland, this poem is a long-distance romance between two “internal immigrants,” displaced in their own native soil. The first generation of romantics were not politicians; their nostalgic world view was weltanschauung, not real ...
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... homeland, as well as some of the most sedentary artists, such as the American Joseph Cornell, who never traveled but always dreamed of exile. For them, an off-modern outlook was not only an artistic credo but a lifestyle and a worldview ...
... homeland, as well as some of the most sedentary artists, such as the American Joseph Cornell, who never traveled but always dreamed of exile. For them, an off-modern outlook was not only an artistic credo but a lifestyle and a worldview ...
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