An everyday nostalgia: Memory and the fictions of belonging

In 1984, George Orwell presented the future as a dystopian vision, where everyday existence was governed and redefined by an oppressive regime. Winston Smith's daily duties at the Ministry of Truth involved the invention, rewriting and erasing of fragments of history as a means of perpetuating contentment, uniformity and control. History, as Orwell described it in the novel 'was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.' More that a quarter of a century after the publication of 1984, Michel Foucault discussed the cinematic representation and misrepresentation of French history and identity in terms of what he called the manipulation of 'popular memory'. In what was tantamount to a diluted version of Orwell's palimpsestic histories, Foucault stated that 'people are not shown what they were, but what they must remember having been.' This paper will investigate notions of memory, identity and the everyday through a discussion of the community of Celebration in Florida. Conceived in the 1990s, Celebration was designed around a fictionalised representation of pre 1940s small town America, using nostalgia for a mythologised past to create a sense of comfort, community and conformity among its residents. Adapting issues raised by Orwell, Foucault and Baudrillard, this paper will discuss the way in which architecture, like film and literature, can participate in what Foucault discussed as the manipulation of popular memory, inducing and exploiting a nostalgia for an everyday past that that never really existed.

La Nostalgia Operativa: un nuevo romanticismo

Son muchos más de los que creemos, los “edificios modernos” que, abandonados desde hace tiempo, yacen silenciosos y olvidados frente a nuestros ciegos ojos, atentos sólo al simulacro social. La visión de su ruina cuando aparece, no produce en nosotros la misma sensación que la que producen las arquitecturas clásicas del pasado. Esta otra nos desasosiega e inquieta, despertando en nosotros la extrañeza, el desconcierto y, a veces, la culpa. ¿Qué particularidades intervienen y motivan esta contemplación sin nostalgia del pasado? ¿Cómo debemos instalar este fenómeno en el debate arquitectónico actual? Y más específicamente ¿Se puede integrar la ruina moderna en el proceso proyectual contemporáneo?. There are more “modern buildings” than we think that they remain abandoned and forgotten since a long time, in front of our blind eyes, focused only on the social simulacre. The vision of ruin when it appears, does not produce in us the same feeling as that produced by traditional architectures of the past. This one disturbs and us restless, waking us strangeness, confusion and sometimes guilt. What particularities involve and motivate this contemplation without nostalgia for the past? How should we install this phenomenon in the current architectural discussion? And more specifically. Can we integrate modern ruin into the contemporary design process?.

Terra Natal, de Ferreira Itajubá, e a permanência do romantismo

In this dissertation we argue that the work Terra Natal, by the poet Ferreira Itajubá, presents, predominantly, themes and forms typical of the Romantic period, although it came out in 1914, when the romantic aesthetic was no longer popular in Brazilian Literature. Firstly, we discuss about Ferreira Itajubá s biography, his bibliographic production as well as the critical fortune of his works. Secondly, we outline the course of the Romantic Movement from its emergence in Europe to its arrival in Brazil as well as its impact in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. Finally, we analyze of Terra Natal, taking into account other aspects such as context and structure through the analysis of the poems VII, IX, XVIII, XXI and also of the song Viola , inserted in the poem VIII. We highlight the following romantic themes during the analysis: exile, nostalgia for the past, cult of native land, the romantic view of woman, projection of soul s state on nature, and religiosity. We will try to create dialogues between Terra Natal and works of popular Romantic Brazilian writers, such as Gonçalves Dias, Casimiro de Abreu, José de Alencar,Visconde de Taunay and Castro Alves, in order to show the affiliation of the above-referenced work and the Romantic ideals

El mito revisitado en The World doesn't end, de Charles Simic

Este artículo realiza un acercamiento al libro de poemas en prosa The World Doesn’t End, del poeta serbio-norteamericano Charles Simic. En el poemario se advierten dos rasgos fundamentales que contribuyen a configurar la visión del mundo que Simic desarrolla a lo largo de su extensa producción: por un lado, la creación de un universo de ribetes surrealistas y, por otro, una nostalgia por el pasado como tiempo perdido, recuperable solamente a través de la imaginación. The World Doesn’t End, publicado en Estados Unidos en 1990, fue traducido al español por Mario Lucarda en España, y ha llegado nuestro país solamente mediante versiones de algunos de los poemas en prosa en publicaciones periódicas. Es por eso que se propone, al final del artículo, una breve selección de textos traducidos al español, para contribuir a la difusión de este autor que manifiesta, con su obra, una de las múltiples voces de la poesía norteamericana contemporánea.

Turismo em Espaço Rural

O turismo é uma das principais atividades geradoras de emprego e riqueza em todo o mundo, Portugal não é exceção à regra, este setor de atividade é o que mais contribui para a revitalização do espaço rural, consistindo em oportunidades de empreendedorismo, numa vertente de recuperação de espaços que tradicionalmente eram agrícolas, numa ótica de novo negócio, para um segmento de mercado específico. O Turismo em Espaço Rural em Portugal surge no final da década de 70 do século passado, consistindo no aproveitamento e na adaptação de património construído para fins de alojamento em zonas rurais envolvendo, principalmente, casas rústicas, quintas com atividades agrícolas e hotéis rurais. Na sua essência o Turismo em Espaço Rural satisfaz as necessidades de um grupo crescente de consumidores citadinos que procura romper com o quotidiano e obter uma experiência revigorante, através da procura do "autêntico", a nostalgia pelo passado, em perfeita integração com a natureza, atividades ao ar livre em contextos naturais, relaxamento num ambiente calmo e tranquilo, atributos que não encontram no meio urbano ao mesmo tempo que constituem um fator de valorização do meio rural e de reequilíbrio económico-social.

Nostalgia, music and the television past revisited in American dreams

The 1960s-set NBC family drama American Dreams presents not just the recent American past but its musical television as well. This paper examines how the show’s recreation of and interaction with the music show American Bandstand ties together the divergent experiences of a turbulent decade. American Dreams’ reshooting and appropriation of original broadcast footage is intricately interwoven with dramatic action allowing for new layers of commentary and meaning to be read across the music and image relationship. Through intercutting and juxtaposition, its use of music performance goes beyond the regressive recycling of images of nostalgia, as critiqued by Jameson and other theorists of postmodernity, to engage political and social debates through a complex web of reference, reproduction and commentary, presenting a politicised reading of the 1960s that problematises these charges of nostalgia texts as apolitical and ‘historicist’.

A utopia no Cinema Brasileiro: matrizes, nostalgia, distopias

This book studies the ressurgence of the utopian gesture in Brazilian Cinema from the mid-1990s onwards, as well as its variations and negations. The analysis identifies trajectories of rise and fall, which reflect oscillations in the political scenario, and includes a retrospective look at utopian traditions of the Brazilian cinematic past, in turn derived from the nation's foundational myths. At the same time, it considers the ways in which recent Brazilian film production transcends Cinema Novo's national project to interacts with modern, postmodern and commercial cinemas of the world, thus benefiting from and contributing to a new transnational cinematic aesthetics.

"Un acto más de la agricultura". Nostalgia y crítica del pasado franquista en Tranvía a la Malvarrosa de Manuel Vicent

La novela Tranvía a la Malvarrosa (1994), de Manuel Vicent, evoca una imagen nostálgica del pasado. Los olores, colores y sonidos de la Valencia de los años 50 hacen que el aprendizaje sentimental, profesional y moral del protagonista quede retratado de una manera profundamente atractiva. Sin embargo, el narrador de la novela critica el régimen franquista de aquellos días al mismo tiempo que los recuerda nostálgicamente. La combinación de un sentimiento crítico con uno nostálgico parece algo paradójica, pero se podría deducir que la crítica del pasado deja que la fuerza emocional de la nostalgia quede contenida y controlada. No obstante, en este caso sucede que la nostalgia termina por desestabilizar el tono crítico. Es más, la insistencia del narrador en los lados oscuros del pasado realzan su nostalgia, ya que sugiere una decadencia atractiva e intrigante

"Un acto más de la agricultura". Nostalgia y crítica del pasado franquista en Tranvía a la Malvarrosa de Manuel Vicent

La novela Tranvía a la Malvarrosa (1994), de Manuel Vicent, evoca una imagen nostálgica del pasado. Los olores, colores y sonidos de la Valencia de los años 50 hacen que el aprendizaje sentimental, profesional y moral del protagonista quede retratado de una manera profundamente atractiva. Sin embargo, el narrador de la novela critica el régimen franquista de aquellos días al mismo tiempo que los recuerda nostálgicamente. La combinación de un sentimiento crítico con uno nostálgico parece algo paradójica, pero se podría deducir que la crítica del pasado deja que la fuerza emocional de la nostalgia quede contenida y controlada. No obstante, en este caso sucede que la nostalgia termina por desestabilizar el tono crítico. Es más, la insistencia del narrador en los lados oscuros del pasado realzan su nostalgia, ya que sugiere una decadencia atractiva e intrigante

"Un acto más de la agricultura". Nostalgia y crítica del pasado franquista en Tranvía a la Malvarrosa de Manuel Vicent

La novela Tranvía a la Malvarrosa (1994), de Manuel Vicent, evoca una imagen nostálgica del pasado. Los olores, colores y sonidos de la Valencia de los años 50 hacen que el aprendizaje sentimental, profesional y moral del protagonista quede retratado de una manera profundamente atractiva. Sin embargo, el narrador de la novela critica el régimen franquista de aquellos días al mismo tiempo que los recuerda nostálgicamente. La combinación de un sentimiento crítico con uno nostálgico parece algo paradójica, pero se podría deducir que la crítica del pasado deja que la fuerza emocional de la nostalgia quede contenida y controlada. No obstante, en este caso sucede que la nostalgia termina por desestabilizar el tono crítico. Es más, la insistencia del narrador en los lados oscuros del pasado realzan su nostalgia, ya que sugiere una decadencia atractiva e intrigante

Nostalgia do espaço e do tempo: uma leitura da obra memorialística de Câmara Cascudo

This dissertation addresses the work of the memoirs of the potiguar writer Luís da Câmara Cascudo (1898 - 1986) from an integrated reading of four works that comprise: O Tempo e Eu (1968), Pequeno Manual do Doente Aprendiz (1969), Na Ronda do Tempo (1971) and Ontem (1972). Produced under the contingency of the modern movement and urban reform, memories Cascudo evoke the old landscapes of old, populated by those who belonged to the old romantic and provincial Natal that no longer exists, but which still survives in the idealized memory author and that is (re)constructed by him from a written permeated with touches of imagination and a sense of nostalgia. Seeking to analyze how is the process of building memoirist of Cascudo, as well as reflect on the role that memory plays in the (re)construction of a time and a lost space, we used the studies of Maurice Halbwachs (2006) and Ecléa Bosi (1994). Within this theoretical framework, we seek, above all, to understand not only how the lived experiences of Cascudo will work in this matter of his memory, but also as this will guide a writing that touches on the history and social frameworks of the past

Nostalgia videogames as playable game criticism

The aim of this paper is to consider the emergence of nostalgia videogames in the context of playable game criticism. Mirroring the development of the nostalgia film in cinema, an increasing number of developers are creating videogames that are evocative of past gaming forms, designs, and styles. The primary focus of this paper is to explore the extent to which these nostalgia videogames could be considered games-on-games: games that offer a critical view on game design and development, framed by the nostalgia and cultural memory of both gamers and game developers. Theories of pastiche and parody as applied to literature, film, and art are used to form a basis for the examination of recent nostalgia videogames, all of which demonstrate a degree of reflection on the videogame medium.

Gli oggetti della nostalgia per ripensare il rapporto con il tempo: pratiche e memorie di due generazioni.

La ricerca di tesi qui presentata nasce con lo scopo di sondare la natura degli oggetti affettivi attraverso l’analisi dei lavori di campo da me svolti tra il 2016 e il 2019: il lavoro di campo all’interno dei Musei degli oggetti ordinari di Marseille e Parma (ricerca in ambiente museale) ed il lavoro di campo condotto all’interno di 28 abitazioni dell’Emilia Romagna (ricerca in ambiente domestico) comprendente un confronto generazionale tra sessantenni e trentenni. In particolare, con il lavoro qui presentato ho voluto cercare di comprendere, per mezzo di un’attenta analisi del legame uomo / cosa, la natura del rapporto che gl’individui tessono con le diverse dimensioni temporali della loro vita: passato, presente, futuro. La mia ricerca di tesi nasce difatti dal presupposto che gli oggetti affettivi (qui definiti “oggetti della nostalgia”) si inscrivono nella storia dei loro proprietari, essi evocano memorie, ricordi, ma anche valori e modi di vivere / di essere. Gli oggetti affettivi essendo in grado di preservare nel tempo una loro “funzionalità”, finiscono per preservare nella loro valenza simbolica ed affettiva frammenti di memorie in grado di orientare i loro proprietari nell’elaborazione del passato, ma anche di aiutarli nella creazione di un tempo presente e futuro sempre più felice e consapevole. Essi, in virtù del legame che li unisce intimamente ai loro proprietari, mantengono in vita ciò che apparentemente non esiste più, preservano l’assente nella loro presenza coniugando l’invisibile al visibile, l’immaterialità alla materia.