What happens to Old World memories in a New World order? Svetlana Boym opens up a new avenue of inquiry: the study of nostalgia.. 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 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, Mandelstahm, and Brodsky. From Jurassic Park to the Totalitarian Sculpture Garden, Boym unravels the threads of this global epidemic of longing and its antidotes.
- ISBN:
- 9780465007080
- 9780465007080
- Category:
- History
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 07-03-2002
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Basic Books
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 432
- Dimensions (mm):
- 227x154x25mm
- Weight:
- 0.53kg
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