Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives

By offering an analysis of the idea of home across the individual, interpersonal, social, and global scales, Mapping Home aims to show the extent to which self-concept is deeply tied to constructions of home in a globally mobile age. The epistemological link between dwelling as "knowing oneself...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Bida, Aleksandra (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2018.
Σειρά:Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Heidegger and "dwelling"
  • Chapter 3: The labyrinthine home in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves
  • Chapter 4: Homecoming in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
  • Chapter 5: Bauman and "liquid modernity"
  • Chapter 6: "Roots" and stability in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village
  • Chapter 7: "Routes" and mobility in Nicolas Dicker's Nikolski
  • Chapter 8: Derrida and "hostipitality"
  • Chapter 9: Welcome as house arrest in Lars von Trier's Dogville
  • Chapter 10: "Home safe" in spite of hostility in Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin!
  • Chapter 11: Appiah and cultural "contamination"
  • Chapter 12: Economic globalization and home in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel
  • Chapter 13: Global "at homeness" in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and the Wachowskis/Tykwer film
  • 14. Conclusion.