Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives

AvAleksandra Bida

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Del i serien Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-10-02
Mått:148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:448 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
Antal sidor:241
Upplaga:18001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319979663

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Aleksandra Bida is Contract Lecturer at Ryerson University, Canada. She has a PhD in Communication and Culture from the joint program at Ryerson University and York University in Toronto.

Innehållsförteckning

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.