Contemporary Nostalgia

• Main Author: Salmose, Niklas (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Film, TV & radio; illustrations; n/a; tropic reinvention; simulation; émigré writers; motherhood; nostalgic spaces; imagery; Naumann; contemporary nostalgia; grotesque; displacement; intermediality; nostalgic experience; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Second World War; North Africa Campaign; post-communism; railways; ostalgia; Partition fiction; retro aesthetics; India; Hollywood; Nubia; restorative nostalgia; narrative modes; Ian McEwan; Lars Gustafsson; post-Yugoslav music; Rickardsson; cosmopolitanism; idealisation; nostalgic dystopias; heritage cinema; advertisements; partition; responsibility; "The Rich Boy"; heterotopia; childhood; myths; spatial production; nostalgic narrative; popular literature; refugees; commodification of feelings and memories; modernism; ethics; first-person narrative; transnational adoption; Finland-Swedish literature; imperial nostalgia; Red Book Magazine; American literature; Atonement; modernity; disembodied territoriality; expatriation; the concept of love; independent style; narrative mediation; F.R. Gruger; nation-state; southern gothic; video games; Czech history; historical recreation; memory; Egypt; media; autobiography; Richard Ford; collective memory; Czech film; normalisation; Pakistan; Niklas Salmose; reflective nostalgia; text-image relations; Foucault; poetry; nostalgia; Yugonostalgia; nostalgic strategies; metanostalgia; lost ideal; colonial nostalgia; pastoral; landscape; territory
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Some of the most pressing contemporary issues (ecological crisis, migration and integration, fragmented worldviews, social media, fake news, extremist politics and terrorism) can be understood more profoundly through how they interact with both individual and collective forces of nostalgia. Nostalgi...