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blindmanbaldwin 's review for:
The Future of Nostalgia
by Svetlana Boym
Using the fall of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Boym explores nostalgia as both poison and balm. Histories rewritten through memory while exiles wander out forever separate from the new history they are not a part of anymore.
Extensive use of physical spaces — clubs and museums and parks — as catalysts for nostalgia, while looking into works of Russian authors/artists and their relationship as exile from the myth.
Limited to her own personal story as Soviet exile, but we are all no more than our own story anyway. Her categorization of types of nostalgia is a framework to analyze or consider other texts.
Extensive use of physical spaces — clubs and museums and parks — as catalysts for nostalgia, while looking into works of Russian authors/artists and their relationship as exile from the myth.
Limited to her own personal story as Soviet exile, but we are all no more than our own story anyway. Her categorization of types of nostalgia is a framework to analyze or consider other texts.