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Gloomy Malaise? I: Re-evaluating Nostalgia and Nation in Literature and Cultural Studies

Session 2 - Saturday 10:00-11:30am
Henry Hall 107
Presiding Officer: 
Erika Wright
  1. Nostalgia: A Philosophical Journey of Recollection. Julia Sushytska, University of Redlands

    I will explore the kind of nostalgia that enables us to bring about the new. Such nostalgia is different from the sentimental longing for a past event or a far away home. A name that Plato gave to its journey is recollection—the remembering of that which did not occur. Or, more precisely, that did not occur yet.

  2. Re-Orienting Okinawa in Post-War Japan. Thomas O'Leary, Independent Scholar

    Okinawa’s relationship within the Japanese imagination has vacillated between colony and romanticized remnant of “pure” Japanese identity. This paper will explore the work of two photographers who chased the notion of “Japaneseness” in this former colony.

  3. Los Angeles Slavophilia, Pre-emptive Nostalgia, and Scornstalgia: A Chekhovian Reading of the Museum of Jurassic Technology and ARTEL Theater Company. Alisa Slaughter, University of Redlands

    Two Los Angeles cultural entities make use of “pre-emptive nostalgia,” or a deliberate approach to the nostalgic mood. They re-negotiate the sentimental nostalgia that mars a common example of “Russian” cultural reproduction: production of Anton Chekhov’s plays.

Session Type: 
Special Session
Session Status: 
Closed