Future of Nostalgia

Name: Future of Nostalgia
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ISBN: 9780465007080

ISBN-10: 0465007082

ISBN-13: 9780465007080

Edition: 2002

Authors: Svetlana Boym

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Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the 21st century.

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 3/28/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Taboo on Nostalgia?



Hypochondria of the Heart: Nostalgia, History and Memory



From Cured Soldiers to Incurable Romantics: Nostalgia and Progress



The Angel of History: Nostalgia and Modernity



The Dinosaur: Nostalgia and Popular Culture



Restorative Nostalgia: Conspiracies and Return to Origins



Reflective Nostalgia: Virtual Reality and Collective Memory



Nostalgia and Post-Communist Memory



Cities and Re-Invented Traditions



Archeology of Metropolis



Moscow, the Russian Rome



St. Petersburg, the Cosmopolitan Province



Berlin, the Virtual Capital



Europa's Eros



Exiles and Imagined Homelands



On Diasporic Intimacy



Vladimir Nabokov's False Passport



Joseph Brodsky's Room and a Half



Ilya Kabakov's Toilet



Immigrant Souvenirs



Aesthetic Individualism and the Ethics of Nostalgia


Conclusion: Nostalgia and Global Culture: From Outer Space to Cyberspace


Notes


Index