Svetlana Boym
Biographic Data
| ID | 232813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Svetlana Boym |
| GIVEN NAMES | Svetlana |
| FAMILY NAME | Boym |
| SIGNATURE | BOYM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mal-estar na nostalgia
Another Freedom
"Banality of Evil," Mimicry, and the Soviet Subject
In this article, Svetlana Boym proposes an interdisciplinary approach to the everyday practices in the gulag at the crossroads of literature, political theory, and history. Boym places Soviet accounts of the gulag in the comparative context of the twentieth-century reflection on totalitarianism and terror by drawing on Hannah Arendt's theory of the banality of evil, judgment, and imagination. There is something inassimilable in Varlam Shalamov's …
Not Working
On Diasporic Intimacy
Paradoxes of Unified Culture
Common Places
Ninochka
Common Places
The Gardens of Scorpio Dir. Oleg Kovalov. Design
The Gardens of Scorpio Dir. Oleg Kovalov. Design: A. Lapshov. Sound: G. Belen'kii. Editing: G. Subaeva. Art: B. Cheikauskas. Lenfilm, Studio of First and Experimental Films with the help of Syktyvkar Club of Cinefiles “The Mirror,” 95 min. Distributed in the United States by Film Forum, New York. 1991-92. - Volume 55 Issue 2
Estrangement as a Lifestyle
Paradoxes of Unified Culture
Research Article| July 01 1995 Paradoxes of Unified Culture: From Stalin’s Fairy Tale to Molotov’s Lacquer Box Svetlana Boym Svetlana Boym Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (3): 821–836. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-94-3-821 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Svetlana Boym; Paradoxes of Unified Culture: From Stalin’s Fair…
From the Russian Soul to Post-Communist Nostalgia
International audience
Common Places
Boym provides a view of Russia that is historically informed, replete with unexpected detail, and stamped with authority. Alternating analysis with personal accounts of Russian life, she conveys the foreignness of Russia and examines its peculiar conceptions of private life and common good, of Culture and Trash, of sincerity and banality.
Common places
The Archeology of Banality
Other| May 01 1994 The Archeology of Banality: The Soviet Home Svetlana Boym Svetlana Boym Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 263–292. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-2-263 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Svetlana Boym…
Death in Quotation Marks
Stalin's Cinematic Charisma
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"Dialogue as "Lyrical Hermaphroditism
Osip Mandel'shtam, "Fransua Villon"Mikhail Bakhtin, "Slovo v romane"The two epigraphs disclose a crucial "genre gap" between Osip Mandel'shtam and Mikhail Bakhtin. If for Mandel'shtam dialogue is essential to lyric, for Bakhtin the dialogical discourse identifies the novel as a genre in opposition to monologic, self-centered and self-sufficient poetic language. In his essays "Fransua Villon" and "O sobesednike," Mandel'shtam discusses different d…
On Diasporic Intimacy
From the Russian Soul to Post-Communist Nostalgia
International audience
Estrangement as a Lifestyle
"Banality of Evil," Mimicry, and the Soviet Subject
In this article, Svetlana Boym proposes an interdisciplinary approach to the everyday practices in the gulag at the crossroads of literature, political theory, and history. Boym places Soviet accounts of the gulag in the comparative context of the twentieth-century reflection on totalitarianism and terror by drawing on Hannah Arendt's theory of the banality of evil, judgment, and imagination. There is something inassimilable in Varlam Shalamov's …
The Archeology of Banality
Other| May 01 1994 The Archeology of Banality: The Soviet Home Svetlana Boym Svetlana Boym Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 263–292. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-2-263 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Svetlana Boym…
Stalin's Cinematic Charisma
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Another Freedom
Common Places
Paradoxes of Unified Culture
Research Article| July 01 1995 Paradoxes of Unified Culture: From Stalin’s Fairy Tale to Molotov’s Lacquer Box Svetlana Boym Svetlana Boym Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (3): 821–836. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-94-3-821 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Svetlana Boym; Paradoxes of Unified Culture: From Stalin’s Fair…
Not Working
"Dialogue as "Lyrical Hermaphroditism
Osip Mandel'shtam, "Fransua Villon"Mikhail Bakhtin, "Slovo v romane"The two epigraphs disclose a crucial "genre gap" between Osip Mandel'shtam and Mikhail Bakhtin. If for Mandel'shtam dialogue is essential to lyric, for Bakhtin the dialogical discourse identifies the novel as a genre in opposition to monologic, self-centered and self-sufficient poetic language. In his essays "Fransua Villon" and "O sobesednike," Mandel'shtam discusses different d…
Stalin's Cinematic Charisma
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Death in Quotation Marks
Common Places
Boym provides a view of Russia that is historically informed, replete with unexpected detail, and stamped with authority. Alternating analysis with personal accounts of Russian life, she conveys the foreignness of Russia and examines its peculiar conceptions of private life and common good, of Culture and Trash, of sincerity and banality.
Common places
The Archeology of Banality
Other| May 01 1994 The Archeology of Banality: The Soviet Home Svetlana Boym Svetlana Boym Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 263–292. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-6-2-263 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Svetlana Boym…
Paradoxes of Unified Culture
Research Article| July 01 1995 Paradoxes of Unified Culture: From Stalin’s Fairy Tale to Molotov’s Lacquer Box Svetlana Boym Svetlana Boym Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (3): 821–836. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-94-3-821 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Svetlana Boym; Paradoxes of Unified Culture: From Stalin’s Fair…
From the Russian Soul to Post-Communist Nostalgia
International audience
Ninochka
Common Places
The Gardens of Scorpio Dir. Oleg Kovalov. Design
The Gardens of Scorpio Dir. Oleg Kovalov. Design: A. Lapshov. Sound: G. Belen'kii. Editing: G. Subaeva. Art: B. Cheikauskas. Lenfilm, Studio of First and Experimental Films with the help of Syktyvkar Club of Cinefiles “The Mirror,” 95 min. Distributed in the United States by Film Forum, New York. 1991-92. - Volume 55 Issue 2
Estrangement as a Lifestyle
Paradoxes of Unified Culture
Common Places
On Diasporic Intimacy
Not Working
"Banality of Evil," Mimicry, and the Soviet Subject
In this article, Svetlana Boym proposes an interdisciplinary approach to the everyday practices in the gulag at the crossroads of literature, political theory, and history. Boym places Soviet accounts of the gulag in the comparative context of the twentieth-century reflection on totalitarianism and terror by drawing on Hannah Arendt's theory of the banality of evil, judgment, and imagination. There is something inassimilable in Varlam Shalamov's …
Another Freedom
Mal-estar na nostalgia
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