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Boym was born in Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
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The Future of Nostalgia
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Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities-St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague-and the imagined homelands of exiles-Benjamin, Nabokov, Mandelstahm, and Brodsky. From Jurassic Park to the Totalitarian Sculpture Garden, Boym unravels the threads of this global epidemic of longing and its antidotes.
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Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature) by S Boym (1991-05-09)
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Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea by Svetlana Boym (2012-04-30)
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Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature)
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Book by Boym, Svetlana
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Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature) by S Boym (1991-05-09)
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Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Library of African Adventure; 3) by Svetlana Boym (1995-01-23)
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Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea
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The word “freedom” is so overly used—and frequently abused—that it is always in danger of becoming nothing but a cliché. In Another Freedom, Svetlana Boym offers us a refreshing new portrait of the age-old concept. Exploring the rich cross-cultural history of the idea of freedom, from its origins in ancient Greece to the present day, she argues that our attempts to imagine freedom should occupy the space of not only “what is” but also “what if.” Beginning with notions of sacrifice and the emergence of a public sphere for politics and art, Boym expands her account to include the relationships between freedom and liberation, modernity and terror, and political dissent and creative estrangement. While depicting a world of differences, she affirms lasting solidarities based on the commitment to the passionate thinking that reflections on freedom require. To do so, Boym assembles a remarkable cast of characters: Aeschylus and Euripides, Kafka and Mandelstam, Arendt and Heidegger, and a virtual encounter between Dostoevsky and Marx on the streets of Paris. By offering a fresh look at the strange history of this idea, Another Freedom delivers a nuanced portrait of freedom, one whose repercussions will be felt well into the future.
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(Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia) Author: Svetlana Boym published on (April, 1995)
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The Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym (2002-03-28)
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Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature) by Svetlana Boym (1991-03-01)
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Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Library of African Adventure; 3)
( What is the "real Russia"? What is the relationship bet...)
What is the "real Russia"? What is the relationship between national dreams and kitsch, between political and artistic utopia and everyday existence? Commonplaces of daily living would be perfect clues for those seeking to understand a culture. But all who write big books on Russian life confess their failure to get properly inside Russia, to understand its "doublespeak." Boym is a unique guide. A member of the last Soviet Generation, the Russian equivalent of our Generation X, she grew up in Leningrad and has lived in the West for the past thirteen years. Her book provides a view of Russia that is historically informed, replete with unexpected detail, and everywhere stamped with authority. Alternating analysis with personal accounts of Russian life, Boym conveys the foreignness of Russia and examines its peculiar conceptions of private life and common good, of Culture and Trash, of sincerity and banality. Armed with a Dictionary of Untranslatable Terms, we step around Uncle Fedia asleep in the hall, surrounded by a puddle of urine, and enter the Communal Apartment, the central exhibit of the book. It is the ruin of the communal utopia and a unique institution of Soviet daily life; a model Soviet home and a breeding ground for grassroots informants. Here, privacy is forbidden; here the inhabitants defiantly treasure their bits of "domestic trash," targets of ideological campaigns for the transformation (perestroika) of everyday life. Against the Russian and Soviet myths of national destiny, the trivial, the ordinary, even the trashy, take on a utopian dimension. Boym studies Russian culture in a broad sense of the word; she ranges from nineteenth- and twentieth-century intellectual thought to art and popular culture. With her we go walking in Moscow and Leningrad, eavesdrop on domestic life, and discover jokes, films, and TV programs. Boym then reflects on the 1991 coup that marked the end of the Soviet Union and evoked fin de siècle apocalyptic visions. The book ends with a poignant reflection on the nature of communal utopia and nostalgia, on homesickness and the sickness of being home.
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Svetlana Boym
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Education
She studied Spanish at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad. From Boston University and a Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard.
Career
She was an associate of the Graduate School of Design and Architecture at Harvard University. Much of her work focused on developing the new theoretical concept of the off-modern. She received an Master of Arts Boym"s written work explored relationships between utopia and kitsch, memory and modernity, and homesickness and the sickness of home.
Her research interests included 20th-century Russian literature, cultural studies, comparative literature and literary studies.
In addition to teaching and writing, Boym also sat on the Editorial Collective of the interdisciplinary scholarly journal Public Culture. In 2006, Boym"s media art exhibit opened in Factory Rog Art Space in Ljubljana during the City of Women Festival.
She also curated the exhibit "Territories of Terror: Memories and Mythologies of Gulag in Contemporary Russian-American Art" at Boston"s University Art Gallery. Boym died on August 5, 2015, aged 56, in Boston, Massachusetts, following a year-long battle with cancer.
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Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Library of African Adventure; 3)
( What is the "real Russia"? What is the relationship bet...)
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The Future of Nostalgia
( Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and his...)
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Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea
( The word “freedom” is so overly used—and frequently abu...)
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Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature)
(Book by Boym, Svetlana)
- Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature) by S Boym (1991-05-09)
- Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea by Svetlana Boym (2012-04-30)
- Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature) by S Boym (1991-05-09)
- Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Library of African Adventure; 3) by Svetlana Boym (1995-01-23)
- (Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia) Author: Svetlana Boym published on (April, 1995)
- The Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym (2002-03-28)
- Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature) by Svetlana Boym (1991-03-01)
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Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Library of African Adventure; 3)
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August 5, 2015 (aged 49) -
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United States