Velvet Retro : : Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture / / Veronika Pehe.

Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked “nostalgia” to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However, this concept seems insufficient to describe memory cultures in the Czech Republic and other contexts in which a “retro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Worlds of Memory ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (190 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Returning to the Past
  • Chapter 1 Painting the Past Black and White: Czech Anticommunism after 1989
  • Chapter 2 The Past as Comedy: Representing Socialism in the 1990s
  • Chapter 3 The Late 1990s: Contesting the Past through Popular Culture
  • Chapter 4 Petty Heroism: Nostalgia for Resistance
  • Chapter 5 The Politics and Aesthetics of Retro
  • Chapter 6 Changing Memory Landscapes in the 2000s
  • Conclusion: Socialism Remembered
  • Bibliography
  • Index