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Contemporary Nostalgia Edited by Niklas Salmose Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Humanities www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities Contemporary Nostalgia Contemporary Nostalgia SpecialIssueEditor NiklasSalmose MDPI•Basel•Beijing•Wuhan•Barcelona•Belgrade SpecialIssueEditor NiklasSalmose LinnaeusUniversity Sweden EditorialOffice MDPI St.Alban-Anlage66 4052Basel,Switzerland This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) from 2018 to 2019 (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ humanities/specialissues/ContemporaryNostalgia). Forcitationpurposes,citeeacharticleindependentlyasindicatedonthearticlepageonlineandas indicatedbelow: LastName,A.A.; LastName,B.B.; LastName,C.C.ArticleTitle. JournalNameYear,ArticleNumber, PageRange. ISBN978-3-03921-556-0(Pbk) ISBN978-3-03921-557-7(PDF) CoverimagecourtesyofWikimediauserjarekt. 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Contents AbouttheSpecialIssueEditor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii NiklasSalmose NostalgiaMakesUsAllTick:ASpecialIssueonContemporaryNostalgia Reprintedfrom:Humanities2019,8,144,doi:10.3390/h8030144 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 RandallStevenson ‘VisionIsolatedinEternity’:NostalgiaCatchestheTrain Reprintedfrom:Humanities2018,7,95,doi:10.3390/h7040095 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 LaraRodrı´guezSieweke Nostalgic Nuances in Media in the Red Book Magazine Version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The RichBoy” Reprintedfrom:Humanities2018,7,131,doi:10.3390/h7040131 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 NannyJolma ‘AsIfThereWasNoFear’:ExploringNostalgicNarrativeinBoCarpelan’sNovelBerg Reprintedfrom:Humanities2018,7,106,doi:10.3390/h7040106 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 MariaFreij IntotheTexanSunset: Metanostalgia,Retro-,andIntrospectioninLarsGustafsson’s“Where theAlphabetHasTwoHundredLetters” Reprintedfrom:Humanities2018,7,103,doi:10.3390/h7040103 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 KamilaMirasova PeculiaritiesofNostalgiainAynRand’sNovelAtlasShrugged Reprintedfrom:Humanities2018,7,121,doi:10.3390/h7040121 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Marie-Agne`sGay “ThePastIsNeverDead. It’sNotEvenPast”: TheAmbivalentCallofNostalgicMemoryin RichardFord’sShortStory“Calling”(AMultitudeofSins,2001) Reprintedfrom:Humanities2019,8,11,doi:10.3390/h8010011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 CatherineDelesalle-Nancey AtoningforNostalgiainIanMcEwan’sAtonement Reprintedfrom:Humanities2018,7,105,doi:10.3390/h7040105 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 EvaKingsepp The Second World War, Imperial, and Colonial Nostalgia: The North Africa Campaign and BattlefieldsofMemory Reprintedfrom:Humanities2018,7,113,doi:10.3390/h7040113 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 MennaAgha NubiaStillExists:OntheUtilityoftheNostalgicSpace Reprintedfrom:Humanities2019,8,24,doi:10.3390/h8010024 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 AmritaGhosh SubvertingtheNation-StateThroughPost-PartitionNostalgia:JoginderPaul’sSleepwalkers Reprintedfrom:Humanities2019,8,19,doi:10.3390/h8010019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 v AnaPetrov Yugonostalgia as a Kind of Love: Politics of Emotional Reconciliations through Yugoslav PopularMusic Reprintedfrom:Humanities2018,7,119,doi:10.3390/h7040119 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 LubosˇPta´cˇek OstalgiainCzechFilmsaboutNormalisationCreatedPost-1989 Reprintedfrom:Humanities2018,7,118,doi:10.3390/h7040118 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 LenaAhlin Nostalgia,Motherhood,andAdoption:TwoContemporarySwedishExamples Reprintedfrom:Humanities2019,8,8,doi:10.3390/h8010008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Pe´terKristo´fMakai VideoGamesasObjectsandVehiclesofNostalgia Reprintedfrom:Humanities2018,7,123,doi:10.3390/h7040123 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 ThomasLeitch There’sNoNostalgiaLikeHollywoodNostalgia Reprintedfrom:Humanities2018,7,101,doi:10.3390/h7040101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 vi About the Special Issue Editor Niklas Salmose, Dr., holds a Ph.D. in English from University of Edinburgh and was a visiting Professor at UCLA autumn 2018. He is currently Vice-Chair of the Department of Languages at Linnaeus University, Sweden and the Program Coordinator for the Master Program in English Language and Literature (MELL). He has published and presented internationally on nostalgia, Nordic noir, Hitchcock, cinematic style in fiction, modernism, the Anthropocene and Hollywood, animal horror, intermediality and sensorial aesthetics in fiction. He edited an issue on the AnthropoceneforthejournalEkfrase2016,aspecialissueoncontemporarynostalgiaforthejournal Humanities2018andabookonexperimentalSwedishfilmmakerEricM.Nilsson. Heispresently editingthevolumeTransmediations. CommunicationAcrossMediaBordersforRoutledge. AtLinnaeus University, he is a member of the Linnaeus University Center of Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS).OneofhismainresearchfieldsistheworkandlifeofF.ScottFitzgerald; hetranslatedand editedFitzgerald’sshortstorycollectionAlltheSadYoungMenintoSwedish2014.Heisco-editinga compositebiographyonFitzgeraldtogetherwithDr.DavidRennieaswellasthenewOxfordClassic reissue of Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon. In November 2018 he was the third annual McDermott lecturerattheUniversityFacultyClubinSt.PaulfortheFitzgeraldinSt.PaulSociety. vii humanities Editorial Nostalgia Makes Us All Tick: A Special Issue on Contemporary Nostalgia NiklasSalmose DepartmentofLanguages,LinnaeusUniversity,35195Växjö,Sweden;[email protected] Received:5August2019;Accepted:26August2019;Published:28August2019 Introduction Nostalgiamakesusalltick: Itengages. Weliveinsocietiesorientedtowardsthenowand thetomorrow,inaworldobsessedwithacomplexandproteanpresentseeminglyimperviousto historicalcontinuity.Themanytomorrowsinherentineverynewtechnology,product,anddigitally mediatedeventdriveusfurtherawayfromourcollectivehistories.Yetthepresentseemsstubbornly rootedinthepast,asZygmuntBaumansoconvincinglyarguesinhisfinalworkRetrotopia(Bauman 2017). Thisoccursbothpolitically,asintherepeatedre-ignitionofhistory’sburiedfires,ranging fromtheemergenceofISISasanultranostalgicforcetothere-emergenceofanostalgichard-rightin Europeanpolitics,andculturally,asinthepersistentreturnofculturalproductionandconsumption toanumberofkeypointsinourhistoryinarestlessandalwaysunsatisfiedattempttoreinterpret, reuse,orreplaythatwhichisseeminglyvanished.Itappearsinthemostpressingissueofourtimes, climatechange,andthediscourseoftheAnthropocene.Thisretrospectiveorientationisobservable inallmajorcontemporarymediaforms,aestheticandsocialpractices.Romanticinclinationtowards thepastmightseemirrational,butouremotionalconnectionstoourownbiographies,aswellas acollectivesolidaritywithourchildhoods,traditions,imaginations,anticipations,anddreamsmayalso bearationalresponsetomoderninstability.Nostalgia,then,appearsincreasinglytobeamodalityof itsownwithmajorpotentialforunderstandinghowournowisshapedbyourthen,bothindividually andcollectively. Whetherweareinclined,personally,tobenostalgicorwearesomehowboundupintheexternal andcontextualnostalgicwebs,nostalgiadictatesourlives.Beyondtheintimatebittersweetimmersions ofnostalgia,conjuredbyaging,remembrance,death,time,childhood,loss,recovery,andmelancholia, weareinfluencedbysuchthingsasretroshops,localproduce,conceptsofnationalstates,xenophobia, communities,technologyadvancement,migration,andtheclimatecrisis. Theworldweinhabitis justconstantlyshapedbyprivateandpublicnostalgias.Onewaytomakesenseofthecomplexflux ofemotionsandtemporalitiesonourplanetinmodern,contemporarytimesistoinvestigateand scrutinizetherolenostalgiahasonourdailylives,inpolitics,equality,sociology,psychology,history, art,philosophy.Theseexaminationsaretrulyinterdisciplinary. Thepurposeofthiseditorialisnottointroduceeachessayinthiscollection(theabstractswill dojustfinehere),neitherisittosurveythehistoryofnostalgia.Myambition,albeitlimitedinscope here,istoframeandproblematizetheworksinthiscollectionwithintheemergingfieldofnostalgia studiesandreiteratesomeofmypreviousviewsonnostalgiaasanemotionalexperienceandan aestheticmodality.Nostalgiastudieshavethepastdecadegainedinterestandimportanceinavariety ofdisciplines,ofteninacomplexinteractionbetweendifferentdisciplinessuchasart,history,literary studies,aesthetics,filmandmediastudies,communicationstudies,intermedialstudies,sociology, psychology,neuroscience,historyofideas,andcolonialandpostcolonialstudies.Althoughnostalgia studieshavenotyetformulatedatheoreticalframeworkforitspracticeandmethods,researchers withinthisfieldinvestigatenostalgiaasacomplexsetofemotionsandhowtheseemotionsinteract withdifferentcontexts.Apost-colonialist,forexample,wouldbeexploringtheroleofnostalgiainboth Humanities2019,8,144;doi:10.3390/h8030144 1 www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities
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