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Postcolonial nostalgias
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Dennis Walder |
"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 … |
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Retromania
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Simon Reynolds |
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, trib… |
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The Ministry of Nostalgia
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Owen Hatherley |
"Why should we have to "Keep Calm and Carry On"? In this sharp, witty polemic, award-winning critic Owen Hatherley questions the many ways we have adopted the gospel of luxurious poverty: from ubiqu… |
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The Go-Between
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L. P. Hartley |
Narrated as a memoir, this excellent novel tells the story of one summer at the turn of the century when the narrator was a young boy. The boy spends the summer in question as a guest at a country es… |
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On the slow train
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Michael Williams |
"An unashamed tug at the heartstrings for a lost era, a time before Dr Beeching chopped the heart out of the British countryside. Renowned railway writer Michael Williams takes us on 12 of the most b… |
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Avant-nostalgia
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John Baldacchino |
*Avant-nostalgia* brings together textual and visual narratives scattered around four themes: knowledge, memory, touch, and return. The text starts where the image ends. The image originates where th… |
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Auf der Suche nach Heimat
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Ina-Maria Greverus |
303 p. : 18 cm |
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The future of nostalgia
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Svetlana Boym |
"Why is it that the age of globalization is accompanied by a no less global epidemic of nostalgia? What happens to Old World memories in a New World order? Do we even know what we are nostalgic for?"… |
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