Abstract
Nostalgia and cultural memory have for the last two decades been broadly used concepts for framing a border zone where politics, culture, art, and history writing meet. By emphasizing how the relationship between the sense of loss and the momentum for creativity are intertwined in cultural production and history writing, the contributors to this volume discuss themes that include many parts of South-East Europe as well as various chronologies and scales in society. Loss in this volume is connected to creativity and represented memory, from the avant-garde artistic to the popular, not to say populist. In emphasizing how a sense of loss intertwines with creative momentum in cultural production and history writing, the volume spans many parts of the region as well as various chronologies and levels of society.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
Two interrelated fields of research have dominated cultural memory studies: the two world wars and post-Communist Europe. These themes have also influenced the studies of nostalgia in South-East Europe. Maria Todorova’s Imagining the Balkans (2009, first pub. 1997) has been key in analysing not only how the Balkans have been exoticized for centuries but also how this has spilt over into politics and the rhetorical use of the past (Duijzings 2000; Todorova 2010; Zimmerman 2012; Halilovich 2013; Velikonja 2017). Likewise, Esra Özyürek (2006) uses the notion of nostalgia in her study of the conflict zones between ideology and everyday politics in Turkey, a topic that has had a seminal influence on the study of South-East Europe in the past two decades.
References
Boym, S. 2001. The Future of Nostalgia. New York: Basic Books.
Connerton, P. 1989. How Societies Remember. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
———. 2009. How Modernity Forgets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Duijzings, G. 2000. Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo. New York: Columbia University Press.
Etkind, A. 2013. Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Halilovich, H. 2013. Places of Pain: Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Bosnian War-Torn Communities. New York: Berghahn Books.
Haugbolle, S. 2010. War and Memory in Lebanon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Koselleck, R. 2002. Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Özyürek, E. 2006. Nostalgia for the Modern: State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey. Durham: Duke University Press.
Raudvere, C. 2017. History as a Mirror and Places of Belonging: Some Remarks on Contested Memories and the Demands of the Past. In Contested Memories and the Demands of the Past: History Cultures in the Modern Muslim World, ed. C. Raudvere. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sorensen, M. L. Stig, and D. Viejo-Rose. 2015. War and Cultural Heritage: Biographies of Place. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Todorova, M. 2009. Imagining the Balkans. 2nd ed. Oxford: OUP.
———. 2010. Remembering Communism: Genres of Representation. New York: Social Science Research Council.
Velikonja, M. 2017. Titostalgia: A Study of Nostalgia for Josip Broz. Saarbrücken: Lambert.
Zimmerman, T. 2012. Balkan Memories: Media Constructions of National and Transnational History. Bielefeldt: Transcript Verlag.
Other Sources
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Raudvere, C. (2018). Loss and Creativity: Affect and Effect. Political and Cultural Representations of the Past in South-East Europe. In: Raudvere, C. (eds) Nostalgia, Loss and Creativity in South-East Europe. Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71252-9_1
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71252-9_1
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-71251-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-71252-9
eBook Packages: HistoryHistory (R0)