Behind Turkish Lattices: The Story of a Turkish Woman’s Life, 1911

Abstract

This abstract examines *Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the Past, Present and Future*, an edited volume by Katharina Niemeyer that addresses the burgeoning field of media and nostalgia studies. Since the 1980s, scholars have explored how media shapes collective memory (Sturken), but recent years have seen a surge in both popular and academic interest in nostalgia as mediated experience. The book emerges from an international conference held at the University of Geneva, where the term "nostalgia" was first coined by Johannes Hofer in the 17th century to describe homesickness among Swiss mercenaries. Over time, nostalgia has evolved from a medical condition into a cultural phenomenon embedded within modernity's contradictions. Svetlana Boym’s *The Future of Nostalgia* (2001) introduced two primary forms: restorative and reflective. The contributors in this volume extend Boym’s framework by analyzing how digital technologies, with their capacity for both preservation and erasure, have transformed nostalgia into a complex interplay between past and present. Digital media not only enable the selective recollection of personal histories but also create new forms of amnesia, where individuals long for times they never experienced firsthand. The book explores these tensions through essays that investigate the rediscovery of analogue qualities in response to digital media, the role of social media in shaping collective nostalgia, and the ways in which film and television contribute to nostalgic narratives.

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