Svetlana Boym Reader

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 books include Death in Quotation Marks (1991), Common Places (1994), The Future of Nostalgia (2001), Another Freedom (2010) and The Off-Modern (Bloomsbury, 2017). 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 an independent scholar based in Jerusalem, Israel.Julia Chadaga is Associate Professor of Russian Studies at Macalester College, USA.Jacob Emery is Associate 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.

An essential collection of essays in literary and cultural criticism by Russian-American writer Svetlana Boym ... [The editors] provide a bibliography of works published within Boym’s nearly thirty-year career, and they have assembled a compelling collection that positions this contemporary philosopher as a ‘foundational thinker.’

• List of PlatesList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsLuminosities: An Introduction Tamar Abramov, Nicole G. Burgoyne, Julia Chadaga, Jacob Emery, Julia Vaingurt, and Cristina VatulescuI. The Theater of the Self (1984-1991) Julia Vaingurt (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)1. Osip Mandel’shtam and the Drama of Writing2. Petersburg Influenza: Notes on The Egyptian Stamp by Osip Mandel’shtam3. The Death of the Revolutionary Poet: Vladimir Maiakovskii and Suicide as Literary Fact4. Marina Tsvetaeva and the Cultural Mask of the Poetess5. Public Personas and Private Selves of Cultural CriticsII. Living in Common Places and Rethinking What Matters (1992-1995) Julia Chadaga (Macalester College, USA)6. The Poetics of Banality: Tat'iana Tolstaia, Lana Gogoberidze, and Larisa Zvezdochetova7. Common Places8. Paradoxes of Unified Culture: From Stalin’s Fairy-Tale to Molotov’s Lacquer-BoxIII. That Historical Emotion (1996-2001) Jacob Emery (Indiana University, USA)9. On Diasporic Intimacy: Ilya Kabakov's Ilstallations and Immigrant Homes10. The Future of Nostalgia11. Conspiracy Theories and Literary Ethics: Umberto Eco, Danilo Kiš and The Protocols of Zion12. KosmosIV. Freedom, Subjectivity, and the Gulag (2002-2010) Cristina Vatulescu (New York University, USA)13. My Grandmother's First Love14. How Is “Soviet subjectivity” Made?15. “Banality of Evil,” Mimicry, and the Soviet Subject: Varlam Shalamov and Hannah Arendt16. Freedom as Co-creationV. The Off-Modern (2008-2016) Tamar Abramov (Mandel Foundation, Israel)17. The Off Modern18. Scenography of Friendship19. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: Victor Shklovsky and Osip Mandel’shtam20. Cryptoarchitecture: Corbusier at 50, A Tour with Svetlana BoymVI. Afterimages: Svetlana Boym’s Irrepressible Co-creations Cristina Vatulescu (New York University, USA)21. Touching Writing (Homage to Jacques Derrida, October 8, 2004)22. Immigrant Hydrants23. Framing the Family Album24. Nostalgic Technology25. Cities in Transit26. Phantom Limbs27. Remembering Forgetting: Tale of a Refugee CampSourcesBibliography: Svetlana Boym's PublicationsIndex