The Future of Nostalgia

Author:Svetlana Boym [Boym, Svetlana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2008-07-15T00:57:00+00:00

The main feature of Berlin in transition is a cohabitation of various nostalgias and a superimposition of Eastern and Western ways of commemoration. Recent postcards of Berlin incorporate the nostalgias of both Easterner and Westerner: both the old Schloss and the GDR's Alexanderplatz, both Ampelmann and Emperor Wilhelm can be seen. The new bookstore on the rebuilt Friedrichstrasse has a room in the GDR style where one can buy the complete works of Marx, Engels, Honecker and many souvenirs with Ampelmann. As in the GDR days, that room is predictably empty; only a few anthropologists and American graduate students hang out there. Sometimes a mere commercial showcase of urban reconciliation around the demolished wall, but other times, as in the case of the New Synagogue, the dialogue between East and West ends in it can reveal the blind spots of history that hinder the nostalgic transports.

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