Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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. Nostalgia is politics, but these politics are also interwoven with media and culture. Notwithstanding how nostalgia is used or contextualized in terms of politics and social practices, commodification or personal development, its power is primarily situated within its efficacy as a governing, influential human emotion. The vast and luminous contributions to this special issue on contemporary nostalgia are all investigating the role different aesthetic media formats (film, music, literature, computer games) plays in nostalgic negotiations with style, history, migration, love, nationalism, diaspora, irony, modernity, colonial and postcolonial discourses, and adoption. Mutually, these essays stand out as important, original, critical contributions to the expanding field of nostalgia studies and offer a valued insight on our world.

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 --- émigré writers --- "The Rich Boy"