Resisting the Place of Belonging

Daniel Boscaljon, Instructor, University of Iowa, USA.

'The collection’s variety, solid editing, and generally strong writing make this a work suited for large collections supporting interdisciplinary study in the humanities. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty.' Choice ’This richly evocative text investigates the strangeness at the heart of home through explorations in poetry, film contemporary art and popular culture. The spiritual challenges of dwelling in familiar, intimate and yet dangerous spaces are addressed with creative candour and academic rigour demonstrating our intense preoccupation with issues of security and identity. It is a compelling but unsettling read.’ Heather Walton, University of Glasgow, UK ’This is an impressively interdisciplinary volume that repositions our understanding of home. In a world where displacement seems to be the ruling sense for so many, even when at home, the essays here set out important bearings - literary, philosophical, religious and cultural - in helping us negotiate any return home or, as may be more the case, reconstruct the place we once thought was home. To engage with these various discussions is to displace, significantly and uncannily, displacement itself.’ Andrew Hass, University of Stirling, UK

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Uncanny Homecomings: Becoming Unsettled in Religion, Narrative, and Art, Daniel Boscaljon; Part I Uncanny Homecomings; Chapter 1a Knowing for the First Time, David Jasper; Chapter 2 Staying Found, Christopher Merrill; Part II Unsettling Foundations of Homes; Chapter 3 Homecoming and the Half-Remembered: Environmental Amnesia, the Uncanny and the Path Home, Forrest Clingerman; Chapter 4 Dwelling Beyond Poetry: The Uncanny Houses of Hawthorne and Poe, Daniel Boscaljon; Chapter 5 The Paradox of Homecoming: Home is Where the Haunt is, Kimberly Carfore; Chapter 6 Uncanny Courage and Theological Home, Verna Marina Ehret; Chapter 7 ALT + HOME: Digital Homecomings, Rachel Wagner; Chapter 8 Faith or Friendship: On Integrating Dimensions of Self-realization in Kierkegaard and Aristotle, Nathan Eric Dickman; Chapter 9 Homecoming as Damnation, Thomas J.J. Altizer; Part III Uncanny Mediations of Homecomings; Chapter 10 Revolt Against the City? Art and Home in Iowa, Joni L. Kinsey; Chapter 11 Domestic Doubles, Generic Cities and the Urban Uncanny: Constructing Home in Synecdoche, New York and Marwencol, Michael Baltutis; Chapter 12 Phenomenology and Uncanny Homecomings: Homeworld, Alienworld, and Being-at-Home in Alan Ball's HBO Television Series, Six Feet Under, David Seamon; Chapter 13 Coming Home and Places of Mourning, Janet Donohoe; Chapter 14 Poetic Habitats, Impossible Homecomings, Hanna Janiszewska; Chapter 15 When the Dead Share the Table: The Uncanny Colonial Home in James Joyce's The Dead, Ayesha Malik;