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Jolma, Nanny. "‘As If There Was No Fear’: Exploring Nostalgic Narrative in Bo Carpelan’s Novel Berg." Humanities 7, no. 4 (2018): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h7040106.

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This article addresses nostalgic experience and aims at a definition of nostalgic narrative through textual analysis. The target text is Bo Carpelan’s Berg (2005). The novel is analysed with narratological methods focusing on the narrative modes and the techniques of narrative mediation that invite a nostalgic experience in the reader. This side of the phenomenon—the textual aesthetics of nostalgia—has been explored by few scholars, whereas the contextual and cultural aspects of nostalgia have received a lot of attention. This article suggests further ways of analysing how a text evokes nostal

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Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika. "Negotiating the Past at the Kitchen Table: Nostalgia as a Narrative Strategy in an Intergenerational Context." Journal of Finnish Studies 19, no. 2 (2016): 7–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/28315081.19.2.02.

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Abstract Stories that elderly people tell about their lives often touch upon their experiences of a changing world and the ways in which people cope with different transformations. In her doctoral research, the author examines the life narrative of a female laborer, the author's grandmother Elsa Koskinen, born in 1927. Koskinen-Koivisto argues that nostalgia functions as a narrative strategy to highlight the importance of values such as social responsibility and togetherness. In addition, nostalgic narratives can be seen as reclamation of agency, an attempt to control change. This article exam

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DESAI, GAURAV. "Old World Orders: Amitav Ghosh and the Writing of Nostalgia." Representations 85, no. 1 (2004): 125–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rep.2004.85.1.125.

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ABSTRACT This article traces the uses of nostalgia in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land. The all too common structural affinity of such nostalgia with discourses of purity and authenticity is challenged in Ghosh's narrative, where cultural hybridity, racial mixture, and economic exchange appear as privileged terms. Ultimately finding Ghosh's creative use of nostalgia to be politically inspiring, the essay questions which historical processes a nostalgic narrative may elide.

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Rodosthenous-Balafa, Marina, and Louiza Mallouri. "Verbal and Visual Representations of Nostalgia in Two Contemporary Cypriot Picturebooks." Libri et liberi 13, no. 2 (2024): 291–314. https://doi.org/10.21066/carcl.libri.13.2.9.

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This paper draws on Svetlana Boym’s highly influential distinction between “restorative” and “reflective” nostalgia in order to explore verbal and visual representations of nostalgia in two picturebooks: Savel’s Red Dress and White Uniform, written by Marina Michaelidou-Kadi and illustrated by Daniela Stamatiade and Renia Metallinou, respectively. Savel is forced to relocate to a foreign place. Her strong attachment to a dress, the only item she was able to take with her, exhibits restorative nostalgia. On the other hand, in White Uniform, nostalgia arises as reflective nostalgia. The textual

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Huelin, Toby. "Stick to the status quo? Music and the production of nostalgia on Disney+." Alphaville: journal of film and screen media, no. 27 (July 2, 2024): 58–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.27.06.

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This article examines the production of musical nostalgia in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (2019–23), one of the first series created for Disney’s streaming platform. On one level, the series serves as a nostalgic extension of the High School Musical franchise in its setting and narrative construction, and a nostalgic continuation of the teen-musical genre in its idealised depiction of high-school life mediated through song. At the same time, this nostalgia is coupled with an emphasis on the show’s newness: the series transposes the original film to a new format—a self-referenti

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Barr, Lindsey R. "‘Waving through a window’: Nostalgia and prosthetic memory in Dear Evan Hansen." Studies in Musical Theatre 14, no. 3 (2020): 313–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/smt_00044_1.

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Dear Evan Hansen, a popular Broadway musical whose narrative centres on connectivity and the protagonist’s social anxiety, offers a disruptive potential to the otherwise standard nostalgic leanings of the contemporary American musical. Operating dramaturgically, nostalgia offers the audience an opportunity to recall an idealized past that imbues the musical they are witnessing with their own positive affect. Dear Evan Hansen’s use of prosthetic memory disrupts the nostalgic tradition of the contemporary musical. Using dramaturgical analysis to identify the narrative operation of nostalgia and

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Ochonicky, Adam. "Nostalgia and Retcons: The Many Returns, Homecomings, and Revisions of the Halloween Franchise (1978–2018)." Adaptation 13, no. 3 (2020): 334–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apaa006.

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Abstract In recent decades, the steady remaking of individual films and rebooting of film franchises evince the cultural and commercial appeals of reimagining established titles. This article analyzes how the related practice of retroactive continuity (retcon) functions as a nostalgic intervention within a franchise’s broad mythology and ongoing narrative. Nostalgia is a longing to return to a desired space or time from which one is separated, and the retcon is an attempt to bind the past and present within a particular franchise’s story world. As such, retconning is an act of nostalgia in at

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Furtado, Pedro Barbosa Rudge, and Maria Celia Leonel. "O afeto nostálgico em Angústia, de Graciliano Ramos / The Nostalgic Affect on Graciliano Ramos’ Novel Anguish." O Eixo e a Roda: Revista de Literatura Brasileira 29, no. 2 (2020): 210. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2358-9787.29.2.210-234.

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Resumo: Tencionamos, neste artigo, demonstrar que o afeto nostálgico é basilar na composição da forma/conteúdo de Angústia (2011), de Graciliano Ramos. A fim de examinarmos a edificação de tal sentimento no romance em questão, investigamos como a forma/conteúdo de Angústia constrói tensões ontológicas provenientes dos afetos da profunda tristeza. Para isso, fazemos uso tanto de textos críticos sobre essa narrativa, como os de Luís Bueno (2015), Rui Mourão (1971), Lúcia Helena Carvalho (1983) etc, quanto de estudos que embasam historicamente a construção do afeto nostálgico, e suas relações com

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Ahlin, Lena. "Nostalgia, Motherhood, and Adoption: Two Contemporary Swedish Examples." Humanities 8, no. 1 (2019): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h8010008.

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This paper explores the notion of nostalgia in two recent Swedish narratives of transnational adoption: Christina Rickardsson’s Sluta aldrig gå, 2016, (published in English as Never Stop Walking in 2017), and Cilla Naumann’s Bära barnet hem (“Carrying the Child Home”, 2015). The two narratives deal with adoption from South America to Sweden, include autobiographical content, and enable a comparison between an adoptee memoir (Rickardsson) and a parent-authored text (Naumann). Both texts center on maternal images, but the analysis suggests that Rickardsson’s narrative echoes the borderland nosta

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TU, ANWEI, and HALIMAH MOHAMED ALI. "CULTURAL NOSTALGIA IN MO YAN’S A LATE BLOOMER." Quantum Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 5, no. 6 (2024): 370–82. https://doi.org/10.55197/qjssh.v5i6.516.

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This paper explores how nostalgic feeling is present in A Late Bloomer, by Chinese novelist Mo Yan. A Late Bloomer evokes a sense of nostalgia of the past. In the face of the rapid development of rural China, Mo Yan makes a nostalgic narration in the work. Mo Yan’s work vividly depicts Northeast Gaomi Township, blending its physicality with mythic and historical dimensions. This space serves as a cultural microcosm, reflecting tensions between tradition and modernity, rural and urban. His ability to use this setting as a narrative kaleidoscope allows for a cultural reinterpretation of Chinese

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Kovačević, Ivan, Dragana Antonijević, and Žarko Trebješanin. "The Methodological Framework for the Study of Nostalgic and Personal Narratives." Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 8, no. 4 (2016): 945. http://dx.doi.org/10.21301/eap.v8i4.3.

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Nostalgic narratives occur in two major forms – as historical nostalgia and as personal nostalgia. Personal contents and historical stories can be registered in the free form of life stories, a well-known genre in folkloristics, as well as in narratives obtained through two forms of interview. The first form of interview is generated from anthropological tradition, or rather, ethnographic data gathering and refers to descriptions of social, economic and all other elements of the past, while the other form of interview, generated in psychology, similar to an in-depth interview, refers to person

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Menke, Manuel, and Tim Wulf. "The Dark Side of Inspirational Pasts: An Investigation of Nostalgia in Right-Wing Populist Communication." Media and Communication 9, no. 2 (2021): 237–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i2.3803.

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In recent years, research found that populism employed a new strategy by using nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, as a communication tool to persuade citizens to support their political agendas. In populist campaigns, nostalgia is used to affectively link (alleged) crises with longing for a cherished past. In this article, we applied a mixed-methods approach to understand how populists exploit nostalgia in their communication and how nostalgic rhetoric has the potential to persuade people to support their claims. In Study 1, we conducted a case study based on a qualitative content

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Valette, Jean-René. "La Mort le Roi Artu et la nostalgie de l’idéal." Romanica Cracoviensia 22, no. 4 (2022): 377–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843917rc.22.034.16199.

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La Mort le Roi Artu and the Nostalgia of the Ideal Along with the Hellenistic novel and the pastoral novel, the chivalric narrative constitutes one of the three forms of premodern idealism. In close connection with the ineffable anthropomorphism of the novel, the narratives of chivalry distinguish themselves by placing the transcendent source at the heart of the society of men (T. Pavel, La Pensée du roman). The article investigates the part that nostalgia takes in the manufacture of the chivalric and courtly ideal starting from human resources (love, war), according to two principal poetics:

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Ramadhoni, Ayudha Eka, and Ranang Agung Sugihartono. "REPRESENTATION OF NOSTALGIA IN THE PROGRAM MEMORI MELODI IN TVRI NATIONAL." Capture : Jurnal Seni Media Rekam 12, no. 1 (2020): 72–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.33153/capture.v12i1.2674.

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This study describes the representation of nostalgia in the “Memori Melodi” music program in the episode Tribute To Yon Koeswoyo. This study uses a construction approach from the representation of Stuart Hall. The sampling technique uses purposive sampling technique. Data collection used is observation without a roleplay and interviews. Data analysis used Miles and Huberman model data analysis which consisted of data reduction, data presentation, conclusion drawing and verification. The results of this study indicate there is a nostalgic representation in the music program of “Memori Melodi” e

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Daithota Bhat, Shilpa. "“Chitthi aayi hai”: Diasporic Sensibilities, Memory and Nostalgia." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, no. 83 (2021): 161–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2021.83.12.

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Nostalgia has been a popular concept deployed to examine diasporic narratives. This paper is an examination of the song “Chitthi aayi hai” (“the letter has come from the homeland”) from the popular film Naam (1986) looking at how nostalgia is constructed and recreated. The song is about ‘a letter from the homeland’ gesturing at pain, memory, what has been lost and what is being achieved in the hostland. Through scholarly references to nostalgia, Bollywood music and diasporic theory, this study focuses on the role and function of nostalgia in Indian diasporic narrative practices.

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Daithota Bhat, Shilpa. "“Chitthi aayi hai”: Diasporic Sensibilities, Memory and Nostalgia." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, no. 83 (2021): 161–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2021.83.12.

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Nostalgia has been a popular concept deployed to examine diasporic narratives. This paper is an examination of the song “Chitthi aayi hai” (“the letter has come from the homeland”) from the popular film Naam (1986) looking at how nostalgia is constructed and recreated. The song is about ‘a letter from the homeland’ gesturing at pain, memory, what has been lost and what is being achieved in the hostland. Through scholarly references to nostalgia, Bollywood music and diasporic theory, this study focuses on the role and function of nostalgia in Indian diasporic narrative practices.

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Tedesco-Barlocco, Brunella. "It’s (Not) All Good, Man: Better Call Saul and the Nostalgic Reconstruction of an Ever-Longing Character." Adaptation 13, no. 3 (2020): 358–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apaa009.

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Abstract Constantly faced with the lives they cannot lead, Saul Goodman’s alter-egos in Better Call Saul, Jimmy and Gene, are defined by a longing, a nostalgic desire for past identities displayed as recursive through the different periods of his life. Nonetheless, character construction is not the only locus of nostalgia within the universe of Better Call Saul: its condition as an audiovisual multiplicity (being a spin-off and a prequel) entails a nostalgia of its own towards the narrative and aesthetic devices of the Breaking Bad series, from which it stems. Thus, through character and narra

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Golovátina-Mora, Polina. "Opening the Door of the Haunted House: An Inquiry of the Nostalgic Experience." Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne, no. 9 (April 24, 2018): 133–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/jk.2018.9.12.

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The article explores nostalgia as a cognitive and affective mechanism of memory aimed at the restoration and healing of one’s Self and developing knowledge of one’s Self by means of involving oneself in the individual or collective past. Employing method of narrative inquiry with the elements of autobiographical inquiry and fiction writing, the article focuses primarily on the individual nostalgic experience unlike nostalgia as a collective phenomenon. The article relies on interpretative analysis of the author’s short stories, selected diary entries, interviews with female immigrants in Colom

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Lei, Chin-Pang. "The Memories of Journeys: Spatialization of Time in Wong Kar-wai’s Nostalgic Films." Arts 11, no. 4 (2022): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts11040072.

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There is usually an agenda behind the rewriting of history. As an acclaimed Hong Kong director, Wong Kar-wai has made several nostalgic films set in 1960s Hong Kong, namely, Days of Being Wild (1990), In the Mood for Love (2000), and 2046 (2004). Relating to Hong Kongers’ anxiety over the 1997 handover, Wong’s films are part of a wider symptomatic cultural phenomenon in Hong Kong cinema. In his nostalgic films, time is often spatialized. With his constant interest in mobile space, such as hotels and trains, he creates an alternative perspective to question the grand narrative of history. In hi

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McClancy, Kathleen. "Desperate Housewives." Feminist Media Histories 4, no. 3 (2018): 179–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.3.179.

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This paper examines the ways that comics can subvert twenty-first-century nostalgia for an imagined halcyon 1950s by refusing to treat history as idyllic, unchanging, or distant, focusing specifically on Joëlle Jones's Lady Killer (2015–17). Lady Killer engages with long fifties nostalgia in two ways: on a formal level, through artwork reminiscent of illustrated advertisements of the period, and on a narrative level, through evocations of the romance comics that were hugely popular even as they are forgotten by Golden Age constructions. Lady Killer revels in fifties nostalgia, but to the point

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Toft-Nielsen, Claus. "Going home again?" MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 35, no. 66 (2019): 003–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v35i66.106494.

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Since its release in 2004, World of Warcraft (WoW) has regularly changed the game and the play experience in signifi cant ways. Recently, Blizzard, the developer of WoW, announced the upcoming game WoW Classic: “an authentic, Blizzard-quality classic experience”. Drawing on interviews with adult WoW fans and gamers, the article examines the game as an ‘aff ective space’ (Hills, 2002) of fandom that cannot be separated from the fan narratives and experiences it mediates. A key component in this aff ective space is the notion of fan nostalgia. The nostalgic relationship between a fan and a favou

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Ballam-Cross, Paul. "Reconstructed Nostalgia." Journal of Popular Music Studies 33, no. 1 (2021): 70–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2021.33.1.70.

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In chillwave, synthwave, vaporwave, and their respective subgenres, a common element is the thread of nostalgia, constant in each. This is the case for both the cover art used for these releases, as well as compositional techniques used in the music itself. Although these genres certainly approach nostalgia in different ways, they each rely on imagery that evokes nostalgic feelings or memories in a form of collective, imaginative self-soothing. The memories evoked, however, tend to rely on unrealistic depictions of reality and center on times and places that have perhaps only existed in the li

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Rudi, Amina Sh. "The Frontier Nature of Nostalgic Memory." Journal of Frontier Studies 9, no. 4 (2024): 186–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.46539/jfs.v9i4.565.

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The research is devoted to nostalgia, understood as an existential and a form of historical memory. The timeless relevance of the problem, which is becoming particularly acute in the space of modern mass culture, the culture of the globalized world, is highlighted. The problem is expressed by the contradiction between the orientation of modern culture towards the future and nostalgic intentions in various spheres of social life. This problem includes the question of the role of nostalgia in the life of the subject. The purpose of the study is to determine the ontological foundations of the mod

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Laoera, Bruce Dame. "Loss, Desire, and Wisdom in Nostalgia Narrative of Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House." J-Lalite: Journal of English Studies 4, no. 1 (2023): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.20884/1.jes.2023.4.1.8881.

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Scholarship fields, especially in history and memory studies, have broadly utilized the notion of nostalgia. It has also become an essential part of understanding the narrative in literature. Some studies have used nostalgia and memory to analyze novels. From a qualitative approach, this study analyzes two intrinsic elements (settings and characters) in The Professor’s House, written by Willa Cather. It applies the nostalgia concept as the main framework. Here, it provides a narrative discussion about people and nostalgia that symbolize loss, desire, materialism, and wisdom

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Meagher, Michelle, and Roxanne Loree Runyon. "Backward glances: Feminism, nostalgia and Joan Braderman’s The Heretics (2009)." Feminist Theory 18, no. 3 (2017): 343–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700117721883.

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Although nostalgia is a much-maligned orientation to the world, feminist scholars including Heather Hillsburg (2013) and Kate Eichhorn (2015) have argued that it might be recuperated for feminist ends. This article mobilises the call to rethink nostalgia through an analysis of the feminist stories and storytelling in Joan Braderman’s 2009 film, The Heretics. A documentary about a feminist collective founded in New York City in the 1970s, The Heretics sets up a way of thinking about feminism’s past that is steeped in nostalgia. Throughout the film, Braderman maintains that the 1970s were ‘a tim

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Ahmetagić, Jasmina M. "ESCHATOLOGICAL NOSTALGIAIN VLADAN DOBRIVOJEVIĆ’S FICTION." PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES 18, no. 1 (2020): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/1857-6060-2020-18-1-1-17.

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Nostalgia is the keyword of Vladan Dobrivojević’snovelistic opus—nostalgia for the “original condition”, as B. Hamvas described the primordial, yet highest order of human existence, nostalgia for the God-man, which is exactly what makes it eschatological—and in our intent to describe its nature, we have chosen Where Angels Come From: The Eastern Genealogy(2019), a book modest in volume,which enables us to speak about the central problems of this markedly coherent opus by following the principle of synecdoche. Where Angels Come Fromis a collection of ten stories which form a nested narrative in

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Menzel, Maria. "Space Nostalgia in The Old Drift: Memorializing Matha Mwamba, the Afronaut." Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities 7, no. 1 (2023): 97–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.161.

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In the two former Cold War superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, memorializations of the space race serve as sites of nostalgia, fueling feelings of national pride. This paper investigates this in a Zambian context by analyzing how the history of Zambia’s participation in the space race is fictionalized in Namwali Serpell's novel The Old Drift. The novel creates a fictionalized account of the childhood and adolescence of Zambia's first female Afronaut, Matha Mwamba, filling the silence in the archives regarding the life of this marginalized historical figure. Significantly, Serpell uses t

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OIKKONEN, VENLA. "Kennewick Man and the Evolutionary Origins of the Nation." Journal of American Studies 48, no. 1 (2014): 275–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875813001497.

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This article addresses the recent attempts to integrate evolutionary history in the US national narrative. Focussing on the cultural, legal, and scientific controversy over Kennewick Man, the ancient human remains discovered in Washington state in 1996, the article explores the narrative politics of American national belonging. Through a popular historical novel on Kennewick Man's life, the article further theorizes nostalgia as a narrative tool in imagining the evolutionary origins of the nation. The article argues that nostalgia produces a temporal dynamic that bridges the gap between nation

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Bevir, Mark. "National Histories: Prospects for Critique and Narrative." Journal of the Philosophy of History 1, no. 3 (2007): 293–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187226307x229371.

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AbstractThe classic national history narrates the formation and progress of a nation-state as a reflection of principles such as a national character, liberty, progress, and statehood. Today there appears to be a growing nostalgia for them, and with it for the role that history once played in the life of the nation. This paper argues that such nostalgia is justified insofar as it expresses skepticism about the philosophical assumptions of much social science history. In doing so, it defends the use of concepts such as narrative and tradition. Yet this paper argues that such nostalgia is not ju

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Hillman, Brian. "Protecting the Deli: Jewish Nostalgia and Social Justice in E. Lockhart's Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero." Journal of Jewish Identities 17, no. 2 (2024): 143–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jji.2024.a936746.

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ABSTRACT: In this article, I analyze E. Lockhart's comic Whistle: A New Gotham City Hero (Burbank, CA: DC Comics, 2021) as a distinctively American Jewish text. I argue that Whistle draws upon nostalgia for an imagined Jewish past by creating an alternative present infused with the material culture of American Jewishness. In so doing, I show how the comic develops features of mainstream American Jewishness—such as eating at Jewish delis, holding a nostalgic attachment to American Jewish history, and working for social justice—in the construction of a superhero narrative. I explore how Whistle'

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Kingsepp, Eva. "The Second World War, Imperial, and Colonial Nostalgia: The North Africa Campaign and Battlefields of Memory." Humanities 7, no. 4 (2018): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h7040113.

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The article addresses the function of (post)colonial nostalgia in a context of multidirectional memory (Rothberg 2009) in contemporary Europe. How can different cultural memories of the Second Word War be put into respectful dialogue with each other? The text is based on a contrapuntal reading (Said 1994) of British and Egyptian popular narratives, mainly British documentary films about the North Africa Campaign, but also feature films and novels, and data from qualitative interviews collected during ethnographic fieldwork in Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt, during visits 2013–2015. The study high

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Kinder, Elizabeth. "Finding balance: Nostalgia in Star Wars transmedia." Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 9, no. 2 (2020): 195–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajpc_00027_1.

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Nostalgia is a necessary element of Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008–20) and the ‘new’ Star Wars comics (Marvel, 2015–19), recent serial narratives in the ever-expanding transmedia Star Wars universe. The anticipation (and consequential reception) of these works is, in part, driven by nostalgia: the original Star Wars film, A New Hope, was released in 1977 and as the series has expanded in the decades since, in film and other media, nostalgia has become ingrained within the fandom as audiences are invited to repeatedly return to ‘a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away’. As a result of decad

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Popescu Sandu, Oana. "New Cold War Nostalgia in Recent U.S. Cultural Productions: Retro and Irony in the Transnational Postsocialist World." Comparative Literature Studies 59, no. 3 (2022): 612–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.59.3.0612.

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ABSTRACT This article examines the intersection of nostalgia, irony, and retro in “new Cold War” story lines that dominate two U.S. cultural productions—the feature film Creed II (2018) and the series Comrade Detective (2017). Both cultural productions anchor themselves in and re-create the Cold War past by addressing multiple audiences in the postsocialist space, Western Europe, and the United States. Creed II and Comrade Detective engage in nostalgia for the 1950s when the U.S. nation became a superpower in the context of late twentieth-century U.S. efforts to maintain that status. Both cult

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Tjokro, Gunawan. "Console to Movie Success, Leveraging Nostalgia, and Introducing Subversion in The Super Mario Bros. Movie." Action Research Literate 8, no. 8 (2024): 2252–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.46799/arl.v8i8.483.

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This research examines the success of "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" by leveraging nostalgia and introducing subversion. The adaptation process from video game to film often fails, as seen with previous attempts like "Warcraft" (2016) and "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" (2009). However, "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" (2023) succeeded by retaining core elements of the original game while innovatively transforming its narrative and character dynamics. The movie's success is attributed to its nostalgic appeal, faithful yet refreshed character portrayals, and the subversion of traditional ge

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Cao, Jiayi, Dongyue Liang, Yujia Song, and Runxuan Zhou. "On the Characteristics and Analysis of Children's Narratives in Memories of Peking: South Side Stories." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 41, no. 1 (2024): 177–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/41/20240784.

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Memories of Peking: South Side Stories is the childhood autobiography of Lin Haiyin, a writer who moved to Taiwan from the mainland, and it is a collection of short stories about growing up and parting. As a prominent representative of Taiwanese women's nostalgic literature, this childhood memoir consists of six parts, in which Yingzi's pure eyes are used to feel the sorrows and joys of the world and experience the bittersweet taste of growing up. This article takes children's point of view as the entry point, discusses the unique narrative art in Memories of Peking: South Side Stories, and an

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Nazarenko, Ivan I. "Nostalgia reduction in the consciousness of the Russian young emigrants’ prose heroes." Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal, no. 2 (2023): 180–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/18137083/83/14.

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This paper considers the manifestations of nostalgia in the narrative and plot scenes of the protagonists of Russian young emigrants’ fiction of the 1930s – early 1940s. The focus is on the works of B. Poplavsky, G. Gazdanov, and J. Felzen. A reduction of nationally oriented nostalgic myths and feelings can be seen in the prose of young emigrants. However, a strengthened existential nostalgia is evident: a longing for the fullness of existence and wholeness of being or awareness of the impossibility of finding a new Home in the reality where one is abandoned and unrooted. The national nostalgi

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Ubaydın, Aynülhayat. "A “Golden Age” Puzzle with Female Audiences of Yeşilçam: Nostalgia, Melodrama and Gender." Journal of Humanity and Society (insan & toplum) 13, no. 2 (2023): 299–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.12658/m0712.

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This study focuses on the ways in which the feeling and rhetoric of nostalgia are constructed and made sense of on the basis of the memories of women who went to the movies in the 1960s and 1970s and who watched mostly Yeşilçam melodramas. Experiencing cinema and going to the movies with diverse goals and meanings, these female audiences of Yeşilçam not only provided information about the cinema practices of the past when talking about their memories, but also expressed their feelings, desires and beliefs related to the past. Looking at memories of female cinema audiences suggests looking at t

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Meier, Lars, and E. Attila Aytekin. "Transformed landscapes and a transnational identity of class: Narratives on (post-)industrial landscapes in Europe." International Sociology 34, no. 1 (2018): 99–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0268580918812278.

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Based on 222 qualitative interviews conducted through a large ethnographic research project on transformed industrial landscapes in six countries, the main argument of the article is threefold. First, landscapes and narratives about past and present landscapes are relevant to the identity of class; second, the transformation of industrial landscapes is most emphatically expressed by nostalgia; third, the narratives are a transnationally constitutive element of class identity. The narratives of workers about the transformation and destruction of former workplaces express an identity crisis as s

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Nadia Hani Jahaya, Mohd Nizam Osman, Jusang Bolong, Rosmiza Bidin, and Tham Jen Sern. "Beyond fear appeals: Exploring nostalgia-evoked mental simulation as a persuasive strategy for smoking cessation." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 26, no. 2 (2025): 825–32. https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2025.26.2.1636.

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This study introduces nostalgia-evoked mental simulation as a compelling strategy for smoking cessation, offering a novel alternative to traditional fear-based approaches. Mental simulation, a cognitive technique enabling individuals to visualize future outcomes, enhances motivation and goal-directed behaviour. When combined with nostalgia—emotionally significant memories from the past—this approach fosters deeper emotional engagement and cognitive reflection, increasing its persuasive potential. Despite its promise, limited research has applied nostalgia-driven mental simulation in health int

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Das, Arnab, Suman Nath, and Subrata Sankar Bagchi. "Banaras in a Narrative of Nostalgia and Kitsch." Anthropos 115, no. 1 (2020): 19–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2020-1-19.

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An ethnographic study on the Indian city of Banaras, one of the “oldest continuously inhabited cities” of the world, helps us experiencing it as a multivocal, multilayered network of heritage, pilgrimage, and tourism that is either continually engaged with the revivalist construction of space or deconstructed by the postcolonial discourse envisaging a tangible and dynamic order of space. The article intends to make an analytical inquiry into pilgrimage, tourism, and heritage in the context of space and time, while relating it to the popular everyday event of Ganga Aarti in Banaras, which can b

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Ylijoki, Oili-Helena. "Academic nostalgia: A narrative approach to academic work." Human Relations 58, no. 5 (2005): 555–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726705055963.

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Monalisa, Jha. "Memory and History in Krishna Sobti's A Gujrat Here, A Gujrat There." Criterion: An International Journal in English 15, no. 6 (2024): 74–80. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14605448.

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                  The present paper seeks to explore Krishna Sobti’s autobiographical novel <em>A Gujrat Here, A Gujrat There, </em>first published in Hindi in 2018 and translated by Daisy Rockwell into English in 2019, to trace how Sobti's narrative refashions the self anew after experiencing the uprooting of Partition, and how the discourse of memory and utopia are reframed in the work to fashion a recuperative, critically nostalgic mode which challenges and problematises the ideas of belonging and cit

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Motzkin, Gabriel. "In the Honour of Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.: On the Sources of the Narrative Self." Conatus 3, no. 2 (2018): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/conatus.19282.

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Modern philosophy is based on the presupposition of the certainty of the ego’s experience. Both Descartes and Kant assume this certitude as the basis for certain knowledge. Here the argument is developed that this ego has its sources not only in Scholastic philosophy, but also in the narrative of the emotional self as developed by both the troubadours and the medieval mystics. This narrative self has three moments: salvation, self-irony, and nostalgia. While salvation is rooted in the Christian tradition, self-irony and nostalgia are first addressed in twelfth-century troubadour poetry in Occi

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García-Minguillán, Claudia. "Poética cuántica: ficción del cosmos de Mircea Cărtărescu." Estudios Románicos 28 (December 20, 2019): 247–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/er/375041.

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Este artículo propone un marco teórico, a modo de poética, de la narrativa breve del autor rumano Mircea Cărtărescu. Numerosos nexos entre los relatos que componen Nostalgia apuntan a una intertextualidad situada por el autor en puntos estratégicos de la obra, los cuales generan una sensación de unión entre las distintas historias. Estos puntos estratégicos de la ficción tienen inicio con el relato de un jugador de ruleta rusa. Los principios matemáticos ahí planteados, formulan, en clave de ficción, la teoría de los mundos posibles. Analizaremos, por tanto, los orígenes de esta técnica narrat

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Ranger, Jamie. "Book Review: The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech by Grafton Tanner." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 19, no. 2 (2021): 301–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v19i2.1276.

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Jamie Ranger reviews The Circle of the Snake by Grafton Tanner. The Circle of the Snake grapples with the political consequences of the cultural turn to nostalgia, specifically the dynamic tension between the radical nostalgia required to contest the incessant homogeneity of cultural reproduction and the neoliberal narrative of a nascent digital utopia endemic to our contemporary systems of mediated communication.

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Maselli, Vincenzo. "Narrating Fabrics: Nostalgia in Animated Puppets’ Skin." Animation 19, no. 1 (2024): 27–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17468477241233249.

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In recent years, many studies in the field of animation aesthetics have recognized that puppets’ materiality in stop-motion animation films is a powerful narrative tool. Starting from these premises, this article explores stop-motion films performed by fabric-skinned puppets and suggests that textile materials convey meta-narratives about loss and nostalgia. The analyses of the anthropological and expressive–sensorial dimensions of fabric indeed allow us to investigate the concepts of melancholy and nostalgia as intellectual and emotional experiences made possible thanks to the material charac

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Briefel, Aviva. "Ghost Speed: The Strange Matter of Phantom Vehicles." Victorian Literature and Culture 50, no. 4 (2022): 693–720. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106015032100005x.

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This essay examines an important subgenre of the Victorian ghost story: narratives of phantom vehicles. Wilkie Collins's “The Last Stage Coachman” (1843), Charles Dickens's “The Story of the Bagman's Uncle” (1837), and Amelia Edwards's “The Phantom Coach” (1864), among others, feature vehicles from the past that return to haunt the living. I argue that that by using ghosts to express nostalgia for more human(e) modes of transportation, Victorian writers explore what it means to feel profound attachments to material things that are no longer accessible. The longing for lost objects results in a

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Osborne, Evelyn. "Adult Reflections on a Childhood Kissing Game." Children's Folklore Review 39 (August 9, 2018): 28–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.14434/cfr.2018.vol39.0.25375.

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Beyond simple nostalgia, how do the games we play as children affect us as adults? Which hidden rhyming lessons are ripe for mature understanding? Using McLoed and Wright’s “happy childhood narrative” this article examines singing game, “King William was King George’s Son” and its use by two adult sisters for nostalgia, memory recall, historical lessons, enculturation, connecting with others of their generation, and creating new art.

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Oringer, Molly Theodora. ""It Was our Home and Sadly We Will Never Return": Nostalgia and the Circulation of Images in Lebanese Jewish Virtual Communities." Jewish Social Studies 28, no. 2 (2023): 125–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jewisocistud.28.2.05.

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Abstract: By focusing on photographs pertaining to Beirut's historic Jewish neighborhood and central synagogue, I address in this article the mobilization of collective nostalgia on three Lebanese Jewish Facebook groups that provide a realm for debating, challenging, and reconstructing concepts of belonging while remembering a shared homeland from the diaspora. Furthermore, I explore how the nostalgic circulation and sharing of family photographs and anonymous snapshots of the community's pre-Civil War life privileges a particular perspective on how life once was, and by excluding other realit

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Oringer, Molly Theodora. ""It Was our Home and Sadly We Will Never Return": Nostalgia and the Circulation of Images in Lebanese Jewish Virtual Communities." Jewish Social Studies 28, no. 2 (2023): 125–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jss.2023.a901515.

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Abstract: By focusing on photographs pertaining to Beirut's historic Jewish neighborhood and central synagogue, I address in this article the mobilization of collective nostalgia on three Lebanese Jewish Facebook groups that provide a realm for debating, challenging, and reconstructing concepts of belonging while remembering a shared homeland from the diaspora. Furthermore, I explore how the nostalgic circulation and sharing of family photographs and anonymous snapshots of the community's pre-Civil War life privileges a particular perspective on how life once was, and by excluding other realit

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