The Future of Nostalgia

by Boym, Svetlana
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ISBN: 9780465007080
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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 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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Boym, Svetlana
  • ISBN: 9780465007080
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 8.90 x 1.00
  • Number Of Pages: 432
  • Publication Year: 2002
Language: English

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