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Exploring Nostalgia : sad, bad, mad and sweet / edited by Anita Dremel and Daniel Juckes.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emotions--Social aspects.
- Emotions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. Sad, Bad, Mad, and Sweet considers nostalgia as a force that shapes culture, the self, and the state. It describes ways in which the nostalgic impulse is co-opted, created, questioned, and championed from a diverse array of disciplinary perspectives. Nostalgia as feeling is pivotal in the construction and contradiction of identity; as tool it is vital in the morphing and moulding of history. From post-colonial, to post-Soviet, to post-national views of home and the past, to the sculpting of story itself, this volume asks questions about how we remember and what those memories might offer. The chapters seek to warn and reassure, to imagine and to restrain; they all acknowledge the power of this bitter and sweet longing for something lost - whether real or imagined - and explore the ways in which nostalgia shapes the stories we tell about ourselves. The volume is an important contribution to the ways in which this multifaceted, much-maligned sentiment is considered.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Anita Dremel and Daniel Juckes
- The Promise of Return: Nostalgia and Ambivalent Commitments to Place in Arab and Afghan Refugee Experiences / David Elijah Bell
- Mu Xin’s Nostalgic Poetic Salvation / Tianzhong Deng
- Bringing the Past Back to the Future: The Politics of Memory on the Example of Yugonostalgia / Anita Dremel and Andrea Zekić
- Ways to Feel the Past: Life Writing, Objects, and Nostalgia / Daniel Juckes
- Colonial Nostalgia? Demolition of Colonial Space and its Aftermaths in Hong Kong / Wing Man Liza Kam
- Toward a Poetics of Nostalgia: An Aristotelian Model of Aesthetic Episodic Memory / Hal McDonald
- Exploring a Cuban Nostalgia: Wendy Guerra’s Todos se van / Myriam Osorio
- Accessing Nostalgia: Programming for Dementia in Museums / Jenny Phelan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-84888-398-6
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9781848883987 DOI
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