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.
關於作者:
Svetlana Boym is a writer and Professor of Slavic and
Comparative Literature at Harvard. She is the author of Common
Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia and Death in
Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet, as well as of
short stories, plays, and a novel. She is a native of St.
Petersburg, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
目錄:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Taboo on Nostalgia?
PART I
HYPOCHONDRIA OF THE HEART:
NOSTALGIA, HISTORY AND MEMORY
PART 2
CITIES AND RE-INVENTED TRADITIONS
PART 3
EXILES AND IMAGINED HOMELANDS
Notes
Index