(P/B) THE FUTURE OF NOSTALGIA

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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.(From the publisher)

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Taboo on Nostalgia?
PART 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
PART 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
PART 3
EXILES AND IMAGINED HOMELANDS
12 On Diasporic Intimacy
13 Vladimir Nabokov's False Passport
14 Joseph Brodskv's Room and a Half
15 Ilya Kabakov'sToilet
16 Immigrant Souvenirs
17Aesthetic Individualism and the Ethics of Nostalgia
Conclusion: Nostalgia and Global Culture:
From Outer Space to Cyberspace
Notes
Index