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Common places : mythologies of everyday life in Russia /

Alternating analysis with personal accounts of Russian life, this text on the "real Russia" conveys the foreignness of the nation and examines peculiar conceptions of private life and common good, of "culture" and "trash", of sincerity and banality.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boym, Svetlana, 1959-2015
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Theoretical Common Places
  • Rubber Plants and the Soviet Order of Things
  • Archeology of the Common Place
  • A Labyrinth without a Monster
  • The Mythologist as Traveler
  • 1. Mythologies of Everyday Life
  • Byt: Daily Grind and Domestic Trash
  • Poshlost': Banality, Obscenity, Bad Taste
  • Meshchanstvo: Middle Class, Middlebrow
  • Private Life and Russian Soul
  • Truth, Sincerity, Affectation
  • Kul'turnost': The Totalitarian Lacquer Box
  • Soviet Songs: From Stalin's Fairy Tale to "Good-bye, Amerika"
  • 2. Living in Common Places: The Communal Apartment
  • Family Romance and Communal Utopia
  • Art and the Housing Crisis: Intellectuals in the Closet
  • Welcome to the Communal Apartment
  • Psychopathology of Soviet Everyday Life
  • Interior Decoration
  • The Ruins of Utopia
  • A Homecoming, 1991
  • 3. Writing Common Places: Graphomania
  • History of the Literary Disease
  • The Forgotten Classics
  • The Genius of the People and the Conceptual Police
  • Glasnost, ' Graphomania, and Popular Culture
  • A Taxi Ride with a Graphomaniac
  • 4. Postcommunism, Postmodernism
  • The End of the Soviet World: From the Barricades to the Bazaar
  • Glasnost' Streetwalking: Fallen Monuments and Rising Dolls
  • Stalin's Cinematic Charisma, or History as Kitsch
  • Trashy Jewels of Women Artists
  • Merchant Renaissance and Cultural Scandals
  • The Obscure Object of Advertisement. Conclusion: Nostalgia for the Common Place.