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2. 1. Mediated Post-Soviet Nostalgia

   Author : Ekaterina Kalinina; Johan Fornäs; Staffan Ericsson; Vlad Strukov; Södertörns högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; structure of feeling; nostalgia; memory; past; Russia; Post-Soviet; mediation; television; fashion; internet; theatre; museums; restaurants.; Kritisk kulturteori; Critical and Cultural Theory; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

   Abstract : Post-Soviet nostalgia, generally understood as a sentimental longing forthe Soviet past, has penetrated deep into many branches of Russian popular culture in the post-1989 period. The present study investigates how the Soviet past has been mediated in the period between 1991 and 2012 as one element of a prominent structure of feeling in present-day Russian culture. READ MORE

4. 2. Towards a Poetics of Nostalgia : The Nostalgic Experience in Modern Fiction

   Author : Niklas Salmose; Randall Stevenson; Laura Marcus; Patricia Waugh; UK The University of Edinburgh; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nostalgia; Modernism; Literature; Aesthetics; Style; Narratology; Emotions; Nostalgi; Modernism; Litteratur; Estetik; Stilistik; Narratologi; Känslor; English literature; Engelska med litteraturvetenskaplig inriktning;

   Abstract : In recent years there has been a body of studies relating nostalgia and fiction in political, sociological, feminist, or historical ways. This thesis, instead, sets out to perform an unusual textual study of nostalgia in modern fiction in order to work towards a poetics of nostalgia. READ MORE

5. 3. “The Pathos of Past Time” : Nostalgia in Anglo-Arab Literature

   Author : Tasnim Qutait; Robert Appelbaum; Gail Ramsay; Ashleigh Harris; Waïl Hassan; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Anglophone Arab literature; Arabic literature; nostalgia; diaspora; postcolonialism; memory studies; عربٌ يكتبون بالإنجليزية، الأدب العربي، الحنين، المنفى، ما بعد الاستعمارية، دراسات الذاكرة; English; Engelska; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Semitic Languages; Semitiska språk;

   Abstract : This study explores the theme of nostalgia in contemporary Anglo-Arab literature from the 1990s to the present. Examining the implications of nostalgic tropes in Anglophone novels by Arab writers, the study makes the case that nostalgia is a key strategy used by these writers in their critical engagement with national historiographies and diasporic identities. READ MORE

6. 4. Reel Socialism : Making sense of history in Czech and German cinema since 1989

   Author : Sune Bechmann Pedersen; Historia; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Socialism; cinema; communism; history culture; film; memory; Germany; Czech Republic; East Germany; Czechoslovakia; 1989; revolution; retro; nostalgia; Ostalgie; coming to terms with the past;

   Abstract : This thesis is a comparative study of the communist past as depicted in Czech and German feature films since 1989, or ‘reel socialism’. It is the first detailed study of post-1989 Czech history films and the first comparative study of German post-reunification cinema. READ MORE

7. 5. Migration and Perceptions of War : Simultaneous Surveys in Countries of Origin and Settlement

   Author : Jonathan Hall; Ashok Swain; Cochrane Feargal; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; civil war; migration; refugees; gastarbeiter; family reunification; exile; trauma; coping; nostalgia; conservation of resources; terror management theory; social identity complexity; assimilation; acculturation; surveys; Peace and Conflict Research; Freds- och konfliktforskning;

   Abstract : This dissertation contributes to post-war public opinion research by examining the perceptions of migrants – the gastarbeiter, the refugee, the family reunited after war – and the local population in comparative perspective. Existing surveys of post-war populations are typically conducted in a single country affected by war. READ MORE