The Svetlana Boym Reader
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (784 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501337505 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Last but not least, the reader includes late pieces that Boym did not live to see through publication, as well as transcripts of her memorable last lectures and performances.. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflective immigrant; her most resonant book, The Future of Nostalgia, was deeply rooted in that experience. Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. Showcasing her roles both as curator and curated, the reader includes interviews and excerpts from exhibition catalogues as well as samples of intermedial works like Hydrant Immigrants. Even after The Future of Nostalgia carried her fame beyond academic circles, few readers were aware of all of her creative personas. It includes Boym's classic essays, carefully chosen excerpts from her five books, and journalistic gems. It also features autobiographical pieces that shed light on the genealogy of her scholarly work and rarities like an excerpt from Boym's first graduate school essay on Russian literature, complete with marginalia by her mentor Donald Fanger. She was simply too prolific, and her work migrated across most people's disciplinary boundaries-from literary and cult
Her artworks were exhibited in New York, Berlin, Ljubljana, Glasgow, Copenhagen, Kaunas, and Cambridge.Cristina Vatulescu is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at NYU, USA.Tamar Abramov is Senior Advisor to the President of the Mandel Foundation, Jerusalem, Israel.Julia Chadaga is Associate Professor of Russian Studies at Macalester College, USA.Jacob Emery is Assistant Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Indiana University, USA.Julia Vaingurt is Associate Professor of Russian literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.. About the AuthorSvetlana Boym (1959-2015) was a literary critic, visual artist, writer of fiction, and Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, USA. Her books include Death in
Svetlana Boym (1959-2015) was a literary critic, visual artist, writer of fiction, and Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, USA. Her artworks were exhibited in New York, Berlin, Ljubljana, Glasgow, Copenhagen, Kaunas, and Cambridge.Cristina Vatulescu