Main entry:

Boym, Svetlana, 1959-2015, author.

Title & Author:

The future of nostalgia / Svetlana Boym.

Publication:

New York : Basic Books, [2001]
©2001

Description:

xix, 404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-389) and index.
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.

Summary:

"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. Tracing the history of "hypochondria of the heart" from a passing ailment to incurable modern condition, Svetlana Boym has achieved nothing less than a new area of inquiry, a new typology, the identification of a new aesthetic: the study of nostalgia. 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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0465007074
9780465007073
0465007082 (pbk.)
9780465007080 (pbk.)

Subject:

Civilization, Modern 1950-
Nostalgia Social aspects.
Memory Social aspects.
Nostalgia in literature.
Authors, Exiled.
National characteristics.
Biography.
Identity (Psychology)
Post-communism Social aspects.
Civilisation 1950-
Nostalgie Aspect social.
Nostalgie dans la littérature.
Écrivains exilés.
Caractéristiques nationales.
Biographies.
Identité (Psychologie)
Postcommunisme Aspect social.
collective biographies.
71.50 culture: general (sociology)
15.70 history of Europe.
History.
Civilization, Modern
Kulturpsychologie
Exil
Nostalgie
Heimwee.
Ballingschap.
Nationale identiteit.
Culturele aspecten.
Psychologische aspecten.
Nostalgie Dans la littérature 1945-....
Exil 1945-....
Russen.

Form/genre:

collective biographies.
Biographies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217069
Call No.: CB427 .B67 2001
Status: Available