Nostalgia as [Un]Serious Emotion: Games and Toys in Everyday Narrative Practices about Childhood

• Authors: Marijana Dimkov , Jelena Marković

Title variants

PL

Nostalgija kao (ne)ozbiljna emocija: igre i igračke kao podobjekt nostalgije u svakodnevnim narativnim praksama o djetinjstvu

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

This paper analyzes the contemporary context of nostalgia, recollection and narration of childhood events on the basis of field notes collected by means of different methodological techniques. The narrative quest for the past produces interpretations of past events and experiences and opens the space to the feeling of nostalgia, or nostalgic stories. This paper aims to present a small portion of the captured everyday life in which games and toys appear as any other subobject or pseudoobject of nostalgia, but with a distance from one’s own childhood experience. We utilize Donald Braid’s approach which opens the space for observing the transmission of oral personal narratives and the transmission of emotions in and through language.

Keywords

EN

personal narratives; childhood; nostalgia; games; toys; personal narratives; childhood; nostalgia; games; toys

PL

personal narratives; childhood; nostalgia; games; toys

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 223-238

Dates

published

2015-12-04

Contributors

author

Marijana Dimkov

• Sveučilište u Zagrebu

author

Jelena Marković

• Sveučilište u Zagrebu

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pss.2015.9.13