The Future of Nostalgia

While nostalgia, which was diagnosed as the name of the "homesickness disease" of Swiss soldiers fighting abroad, became the name of the "longing for the past" disease over time, modernity, on the one hand, believed that progress would erase nostalgia from the face of the earth, and on the other hand, loved this incurable disease to death. Svetlana Boym, who continues her art career by organizing various exhibitions in addition to being a faculty member in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, has overcome nostalgia in St. It explores by wandering through the historical geography of cities such as St. Petersburg, Moscow and Berlin, as well as the works of modern artists such as Nabokov, Brodski and Kabakov, by examining the souvenir collections of ordinary immigrants and trying to get to the roots of our incurable nostalgia. The book, which uniquely blends writing genres such as memoir, philosophical essay, historical analysis and literary criticism, reaches out to places of collective nostalgia that connect national identity to one's effort to create oneself. In short, Boym manages to reveal a completely new field of research, a new typology or classification and a new aesthetic, such as “nostalgia studies”.



Number of Pages: 516

Year of Printing: 2009


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

First Print Year: 2009

Number of Pages: 516

Language Turkish