Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives

• Main Author: Bida, Aleksandra (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Literature-Philosophy.; Fiction.; Contemporary Literature.; Literary Theory.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.