Nostalgias
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Ecological Nostalgias
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Author : Olivia Angé
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2020-11-01
Ecological Nostalgias written by Olivia Angé and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals. In this time of climate change, this book explores how nostalgia for fading ecologies unfolds into the interstitial spaces between the biological, the political and the social, regret and hope, the past, the present and the future.
Postcolonial Nostalgias
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Author : Dennis Walder
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-11-17
Postcolonial Nostalgias written by Dennis Walder and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book offers an original and informed critique of a widespread yet often misunderstood condition — nostalgia, a pervasive human emotion connecting people across national and historical as well as personal boundaries. Often seen as merely escapist, nostalgia also offers solace and self-understanding for those displaced by the larger movements of our time. Walder analyses the writings of some of those entangled in the aftermath of empire, tracing the hidden connections underlying their yearnings for a common identity and a homeland, and their struggles to recover their histories. Through a series of comparative reflections upon the representation in literary and related cultural forms of memory, he shows how admitting the past into the present through nostalgia enables former colonial or diasporic subjects to gain a deeper understanding of the networks of power within which they are caught in the modern world — and beyond which it may yet be possible to move. Considering authors as varied as V.S Naipaul, J.G. Ballard, Doris Lessing, W.G. Sebald, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, as well as versions of ‘Bushman’ song, Walder pursues the often wayward, ambiguous paths of nostalgia as it has been represented beyond, but also within, Europe, so as to identify some of those processes of communal and individual experience that constitute the present and, by implication, the future.
Nostalgias For Homer In Greek Literature Of The Roman Empire
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Author : Vincent Tomasso
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-12-05
Nostalgias For Homer In Greek Literature Of The Roman Empire written by Vincent Tomasso and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume investigates how versions of Trojan War narratives written in Greek in the first through fifth centuries C.E. created nostalgia for audiences. In ancient education, the Iliad and the Odyssey were used as models through which students learned Greek language and literature. This, combined with the ruling elite’s financial encouragement of re-creations of the Greek past, created a culture of nostalgia. This book explores the different responses to this climate, particularly in the case of the third-century C.E. poet Quintus of Smyrna’s epic Posthomerica. Positioning itself as a sequel to the Iliad and a prequel to the Odyssey, the Posthomerica is unique in its middle-of-the-road response to nostalgia for Homer’s epics. This book contrasts Quintus’ poem with other responses to nostalgia for Homeric narratives in Greek literature of the Roman Empire. Some authors contradict pivotal events of the Iliad and Odyssey, such as the first-century orator Dio Chrysostom’s Trojan Speech, which claims that the Trojan hero Hector did not in fact die, contrary to the Iliad’s account. Others re-created Homeric narratives but did not contradict them, improvising some elements and adding others. Quintus strikes a compromise in his epic, re-imagining Homeric narrative by introducing new characters and scenarios, while at the same time retaining the Iliad and Odyssey’s aesthetics. Nostalgias for Homer in Greek Literature of the Roman Empire is of interest to students and scholars working on Homeric reception and the Greek literature of the Roman Empire, as well as those interested in classical literature and reception more broadly.
Shamans Nostalgias And The Imf
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Author : Laurel Kendall
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2009-09-01
Shamans Nostalgias And The Imf written by Laurel Kendall and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Thirty years ago, anthropologist Laurel Kendall did intensive fieldwork among South Korea’s (mostly female) shamans and their clients as a reflection of village women’s lives. In the intervening decades, South Korea experienced an unprecedented economic, social, political, and material transformation and Korean villages all but disappeared. And the shamans? Kendall attests that they not only persist but are very much a part of South Korean modernity. This enlightening and entertaining study of contemporary Korean shamanism makes the case for the dynamism of popular religious practice, the creativity of those we call shamans, and the necessity of writing about them in the present tense. Shamans thrive in South Korea’s high-rise cities, working with clients who are largely middle class and technologically sophisticated. Emphasizing the shaman’s work as open and mutable, Kendall describes how gods and ancestors articulate the changing concerns of clients and how the ritual fame of these transactions has itself been transformed by urban sprawl, private cars, and zealous Christian proselytizing. For most of the last century Korean shamans were reviled as practitioners of antimodern superstition; today they are nostalgically celebrated icons of a vanished rural world. Such superstition and tradition occupy flip sides of modernity’s coin—the one by confuting, the other by obscuring, the beating heart of shamanic practice. Kendall offers a lively account of shamans, who once ministered to the domestic crises of farmers, as they address the anxieties of entrepreneurs whose dreams of wealth are matched by their omnipresent fears of ruin. Money and access to foreign goods provoke moral dilemmas about getting and spending; shamanic rituals express these through the longings of the dead and the playful antics of greedy gods, some of whom have acquired a taste for imported whiskey. No other book-length study captures the tension between contemporary South Korean life and the contemporary South Korean shamans’ work. Kendall’s familiarity with the country and long association with her subjects permit nuanced comparisons between a 1970s "then" and recent encounters—some with the same shamans and clients—as South Korea moved through the 1990s, endured the Asian Financial Crisis, and entered the new millennium. She approaches her subject through multiple anthropological lenses such that readers interested in religion, ritual performance, healing, gender, landscape, material culture, modernity, and consumption will find much of interest here.
Past Nostalgias
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Author : Mario Garrido Espinosa
language : en
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Release Date : 2021-01-19
Past Nostalgias written by Mario Garrido Espinosa and has been published by Babelcube Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with Humor categories.
"Past Nostalgias" is a collection of childhood and youth memories, where the author unleashes his customary irony, but this time covered by the tenderness or beauty of somewhat mythologized memories. Some of these "Nostalgias" were published during 2016 in different social networks with great success. Readers recognized the protagonist's experiences as their own, either because they experienced similar situations or because they reminded them of others that they had already forgotten. This recognition not only occurred among Spanish readers; they also found similarities between Argentina and Mexico. After all, children are still children because they are on the other side of the planet. Relive again the illusion of when they bought you a simple comic, the terror in its purest form when it was time to visit the practitioner, the joy of the summer on the beach, the simplicity of your childhood birthdays, just as they were in the last quarter of the Last century; but beware, you may be surprised how similar this book is to the beginnings of your own biography.
Between Good Byes And Nostalgia Entre Adioses Y Nostalgias And Of Distances And Solitudes De Distancias Y Soledades
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Author : Marino Muñoz Lagos
language : en
Publisher: DOS Madres Press
Release Date : 2022-01-30
Between Good Byes And Nostalgia Entre Adioses Y Nostalgias And Of Distances And Solitudes De Distancias Y Soledades written by Marino Muñoz Lagos and has been published by DOS Madres Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-30 with categories.
Marino Muñoz Lagos is the child of a sentimental and sad region of Chile, the south, which produced some of the greatest poets of all time. With all of the rain and long, dark winters, the poet withdraws into himself and becomes a friend of evocations and nostalgia. Marino once said that "everything is measured by the yardstick of nostalgia" and "we inhabit nostalgia as if it were an old house." And so he engages readers with a sentimentality that combines his perspective on life--and death--while convincing them to open up their own lives. He speaks of old railway stations and the slow trains that carried away his best friends, a girl he loved and the voices of his childhood. He converses with wine during the long silences that death brings and imagines a communion with classmates who have long since departed. In line with many Latin American writers, he displays his solidarity with the poor, beggars, moneyless musicians, organ grinders and street people. He evokes the smell of bread on his mother's hands and keeps her tenderness alive even after her death. He speaks of the poets who come loaded with nostalgia and poverty in their pockets. And yet through all of the sadness he shines light on a promising future. Bilingual - Spanish with English translation Poetry.
Media And Nostalgia
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Author : K. Niemeyer
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-05-20
Media And Nostalgia written by K. Niemeyer and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-20 with History categories.
Media and Nostalgia is an interdisciplinary and international exploration of media and their relation to nostalgia. Each chapter demonstrates how nostalgia has always been a media-related matter, studying also the recent nostalgia boom by analysing, among others, digital photography, television series and home videos.
Novel Nostalgias
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Author : John Funchion
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Novel Nostalgias written by John Funchion and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shows how novels shaped a series of culture wars by advancing antagonistic nostalgias.
Speculative Nostalgias
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Author : Noam S. Cohen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Speculative Nostalgias written by Noam S. Cohen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
The Geography Of Nostalgia
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Author : Alastair Bonnett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-08-11
The Geography Of Nostalgia written by Alastair Bonnett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-11 with Social Science categories.
We are familiar with the importance of 'progress' and 'change'. But what about loss? Across the world, from Beijing to Birmingham, people are talking about loss: about the loss that occurs when populations try to make new lives in new lands as well as the loss of traditions, languages and landscapes. The Geography of Nostalgia is the first study of loss as a global and local phenomenon, something that occurs on many different scales and which connects many different people. The Geography of Nostalgia explores nostalgia as a child of modernity but also as a force that exceeds and challenges modernity. The book begins at a global level, addressing the place of nostalgia within both global capitalism and anti-capitalism. In Chapter Two it turns to the contested role of nostalgia in debates about environmentalism and social constructionism. Chapter Three addresses ideas of Asia and India as nostalgic forms. The book then turns to more particular and local landscapes: the last three chapters explore the yearnings of migrants for distant homelands, and the old cities and ancient forests that are threatened by modernity but which modern people see as sites of authenticity and escape. The Geography of Nostalgia is a reader friendly text that will appeal to a variety of markets. In the university sector it is a student friendly, interdisciplinary text that will be welcomed across a broad range of courses, including cultural geography, post-colonial studies, landscape and planning, sociology and history.