Nostalgia (Psychology)

Consumed by Nostalgia?

by Sylwia Chrostowska

published in Sub-stance

Going No Place?” Foregrounding Nostalgia and Psychological Spaces in Wharton's The House of Mirth

by Sean Scanlan

Narrating nostalgia: Modern literary homesickness in New York narratives, 1809--1925

by Sean Scanlan

"La valise ou le cercueil": un aller-retour dans la memoire des Pieds-Noirs

by Amy Hubbell

Revue Diasporas: histoire et sociétés 12 (octobre 2008): 199-207.

'The rivers of Zimbabwe will run red with blood’: Enoch Powell and the post-imperial nostalgia of the Monday Club.

by Daniel McNeil

Journal of Southern African Studies 37.4 (2011)

In his influential account of postcolonial melancholia, Paul Gilroy suggests that contemporary reports of violence in... more In his influential account of postcolonial melancholia, Paul Gilroy suggests that contemporary reports of violence in Southern Africa reveal Britain’s inability to work through its grim history of imperialism and colonialism. Gilroy’s study links recent discussions of tragic Southern African themes to Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech in 1968. However, it does not mention Powell’s critique of Britain’s ‘post-imperial nostalgia’ in a speech about Rhodesia later that year. This is not entirely surprising – the Conservative Central Office did not disseminate Powell’s call for Britons to move beyond sentimental attachment to ‘kith and kin’ in Rhodesia, and Rhodesian sympathisers in the Conservative Monday Club attempted to work around Powell’s refusal to support the ‘White Commonwealth’. Moreover, Powell opposed non-white ‘communalism’ whether he was emphasising the importance of the British Empire to English identity or challenging the ‘harmful myth’ of empire as an English nationalist. Consequently, this paper uses archival material relating to the Monday Club and the Rhodesian Ministry of Information in order to document three of the main strands of postcolonial melancholia that apply to Powellite figures on the right who defended (white) minority rule in Rhodesia and/or demonised (non-white) minority cultures in the United Kingdom.

O Papel da Nostalgia para o Turista Norte-Americano no Espaço Rural Europeu (Book chapter)

by Áurea Rodrigues

Rodrigues, Áurea L. O; Kastenholz, Elisabeth; Morais, Duarte. 2011. O Papel da Nostalgia para o Turista Norte-Americano no Espaço Rural Europeu. In O Rural Plural Olhar o Presente, Imaginar o Futuro, ed. Figueiredo, E.; Kastenholz, E.; Eusébio, M.C.; Gomes; M.C.; Carneiro, M.J.; Batista, P. e Valente, S. , 0 - 0. ISBN: 978-989-8448-06-4. Castro Verde: 100Luz Editora

Playing Yesterday - Retrogaming and Media Nostalgia (FROG Talk)

by Sebastian Felzmann

Talk to be held on the 4th FROG in Vienna (24-26.09.10)

“Templisierung: Die Rückkehr des Tempels in die jüdische und christliche Liturgie der Spätantike“

by daniel stoekl

published in J. Scheid (ed.) Rites et croyances dans les religions du monde romain. (Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique 53; Geneva: Fondation Hardt & Vandoeuvres, 2007), pp. 231-287.

The destruction of the Temple deprived large parts of Judaism and also some Christians of their cultic center. Post-70... more The destruction of the Temple deprived large parts of Judaism and also some Christians of their cultic center. Post-70 Judaism and Christianity were “unbloody” and therefore exceptional religions in the panorama of Greco-Roman religions. Yet both religions progressively introduced sacrificial terminology and ideology into their cultic system. There were manifold ways in which the non-sacrificial cult was linked to the Temple. Transfer of elements (e.g. priests, blessings, shofar); synchronization of prayer meetings with (alleged) times of Temple sacrifice; verbalization (verbal description and narration) of the Temple cult in the non-sacrificial cult); metaphorization (usage of Temple terminology for other new things, such as priesthood in Christianity, Minha as prayer title, etc). Starting with a survey of the Second Temple traditions, the article proceeds from Mishna to Tosefta to Talmudim, archeological remains of synagoges and then to Christian sources. The development is explained as a dialogue between both religions. The construction of synagogues in the image of the Temple is shown to have been particularly prevalent in the fourth century, which could be a reaction to similar architectural theology in Constantinian Christianity. Jewish and Christian “Templization” is argued to differ in that Jewish Templization is rather nostalgic while Christian is more utopian (without a sharp division line).