Opening the Door of the Haunted House: An Inquiry of the Nostalgic Experience

• Authors: Polina Golovátina-Mora
• Conference: 4th International Interdisciplinary Memory Conference “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia” (17-18 Semptember, 2015 in Gdansk)
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article explores nostalgia as a cognitive and affective mechanism of memory aimed at the restoration and healing of one’s Self and developing knowledge of one’s Self by means of involving oneself in the individual or collective past. Employing method of narrative inquiry with the elements of autobiographical inquiry and fiction writing, the article focuses primarily on the individual nostalgic experience unlike nostalgia as a collective phenomenon. The article relies on interpretative analysis of the author’s short stories, selected diary entries, interviews with female immigrants in Colombia and travel blog entries in the broader context of the sociological, psychological and philosophical studies of memory and nostalgia and literary and cinematic works that explore the relevant topics.

Keywords

Emigration; memory; narrative inquiry; Self-knowledge; Soviet childhood

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański. Wydział Filologiczny
• Journal: Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 9 "Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia"
• Pages: 133-144

Contributors

author

Polina Golovátina-Mora

• Universidad Pontificia Bolivarianain in Medellín (Colombia), Faculty of Social Communication-Journalism

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Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.26881/jk.2018.9.12