The Promise of Nostalgia: Reminiscence, Longing and Hope in Contemporary American Culture

ISBN-13: 9781032175867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 228 str.

Nicola Sayers

Opis

 The Promise of Nostalgia analyses a range of texts to explore nostalgia as a prominent affect in contemporary American cultural production.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Personal Preface

Introduction

PART ONE

1 Nostalgia: Is It Really Not What It Used To Be?

2 Memory, Nostalgia, Utopia and Time

3 Nostalgia as ‘Gold-bearing Rubble’

PART TWO

Interlude 1 The Hole in the Whole: Utopia Contra Instrumental Reason

4 The ‘Strange Magic’ of Style Rookie and Rookiemag

Interlude 2 A Space Outside: Utopia as Negation

5 Memories of Longing in The Virgin Suicides 

Interlude 3 Marshalling the Past: Utopia versus Once Upon a Time

6 Nostalgia in Photographs of Detroit’s ‘Abandoned Spaces’

Conclusion

Bibliography

O autorze

Nicola Sayers recently completed her PhD at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK