[Discussion] Release of IJCS Issue #5, "Nostalgia"

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From:  Douglas Dowland <douglas-dowland@uiowa.edu>

The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, a peer-reviewed publication that
mixes traditional approaches and contemporary interventions in the
interdisciplinary humanities and interpretive social sciences, is
pleased to announce the release of its fifth issue, "Nostalgia,"
guest-edited by Tom Lutz and Sean Scanlan.

Scanlan writes in his introduction that, "These essays share a suspicion
of previous conceptualizations of nostalgia and of certain theoretical
heuristics in cultural studies. They also share an attention to cultural
reactions, to not just the objects of nostalgia, but to the history of
nostalgia as well.  For these critics, history, film, popular music,
African American, Russian, and American Indian literature become entry
points into examinations that re-appropriate all the terms and histories
of nostalgia at our disposal."

Articles Include:
Marcos Piason Natali (University of Sao Paulo), "The History and the
Politics of Nostalgia"

Amelia DeFalco (University of Toronto) "A Double-Edged Longing:
Nostalgia, Melodrama, and Todd Haynes's Far from Heaven"

David Sigler (University of Virginia) "Funky Days are Back Again":
Reading Seventies Nostalgia in Late-Nineties Rock Music"

Jennifer Ladino (University of Washington) "Longing for Wonderland:
Nostalgia for Nature in Post-Frontier America"

Natalie Friedman (Vassar College) "Nostalgia, Nationhood, and the New
Immigrant Narrative: Gary Shteyngart's The Russian Debutante's Handbook
and the Post-Soviet Experience"

Maureen McKnight (Milwaukee School of Engineering) "Scarcely In the
Twilight of Liberty": Empathic Unsettlement in Charles Chesnutt's The
Conjure Woman"

An introduction and coda from the guest editors, as well as the complete
Natali essay can be found at: http://www.uiowa.edu/~ijcs/. Information
about our editorial board, submission policies, subscriptions and ways
of purchasing this special issue can be found (temporarily) at:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~englgrad/ijcs/sub/subcon.htm.

Douglas Dowland
Managing Editor
Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies
<douglas-dowland@uiowa.edu>