Common places : mythologies of everyday life in Russia /
| Main Author: | Boym, Svetlana, 1959- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.