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Author(s): Svetlana Boym
ISBN(s): 9780465007073, 0465007074
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 74.33 MB
Year: 2001
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0465007074 
ISBN 13: 9780465007073
Author: Svetlana Boym

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.

The Future Of Nostalgia 1st Table of contents:

Part 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

    • The Sistine Chapel: Restoration of the Sacred

  5. Reflective Nostalgia: Virtual Reality and Collective Memory

    • Bar Nostalgija: Reflecting on Everyday Memories

  6. Nostalgia and Post-communist Memory

Part 2: Cities and Re-invented Traditions

  1. Archeology of Metropolis

  2. Moscow, the Russian Rome

    • Totalitarian Sculpture Garden: History as a Pastoral

    • The Largest Orthodox Church in the World

    • The Largest Shopping Mall in Europe

    • Unofficial Moscow, 1999

  3. St. Petersburg, the Cosmopolitan Province

    • Petrograd into Leningrad: The Ruins of World Culture

    • Leningrad into Petersburg: Skeleton-Sphinx and Leningrad Memory

    • From the Saigon Bar to a Rave Party: Transformation of the Leningrad Underground

    • Free Island Petersburg

    • The Art of Antimonumental Propaganda

    • The Last Tram: Nostalgia for Public Transportation

  4. Berlin, the Virtual Capital

    • The Destroyed Royal Palace

    • The Palace of the Republic

    • The Screen, the Mirror and the Compromise

    • Monuments to Public Transportation

    • The New Synagogue, the Empty Space and the Retouched Photograph

    • Bohemian Ruins: Tacheles

    • Eden and the Zoo: Immigrant Berlin

    • 1999: Farewell to the Berlin Bat

  5. Europa’s Eros

    • On Prague’s Time: Kafka and Maria C.

    • The Border Crossing: The Whore and the Truck Driver

    • Identity Politics: Sleeping Beauty and Warring Kings

Part 3: Exiles and Imagined Homelands

  1. On Diasporic Intimacy

  2. Vladimir Nabokov’s False Passport

    • Passportless Spy

    • Lovesickness in Disguise

    • Nostalgia, Kitsch and Death

    • Exile by Choice

    • One Locality in Russia, 1997

  3. Joseph Brodsky’s Room and A Half

    • Less Than One: Nostalgia and Estrangement

    • A Crying Eye, St. Nowhere, Empire

  4. Ilya Kabakov’s Toilet

    • Obscene Homes

    • Migrant Flies and the Lost Civilization

    • Utopia Under Repairs

  5. Immigrant Souvenirs

  6. Aesthetic Individualism and the Ethics of Nostalgia

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