What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? How do we create community? When can we say that we truly belong? The issues of place and belonging are the subject of this book. Moving from past to present, the author charts a journey in…
"In Inhuman Citizenship, Juliana Chang claims that literary representations of Asian American domesticity may be understood as symptoms of America's relationship to its national fantasies and to the "jouissance"--A Lacanian term signifying a violent yet euphoric shattering of th…
"Tune in to HGTV, visit your local bookstore's magazine section, or flip to the 'Homes' section of your weekend newspaper, and it becomes clear: domestic spaces play an immense role in our cultural consciousness. The Domestic Space Reader addresses our collective fascination wit…
"Henrik Ibsen's plays came at a pivotal moment in late nineteenth-century European modernity. They engaged his public through a strategic use of metaphors of house and home, which resonated with experiences of displacement, philosophical homelessness, and exile. The most famous …
Bringing together methods, assumptions and approaches from a variety of disciplines, Geraldo U. de Sousa's innovative study explores the representation, perception, and function of the house, home, household, and family life in Shakespeare's great tragedies. Concentrating on Kin…
Introduction : themes and issues -- Heritage homes -- Idealising homes and homemaking -- Domestic modernity in suburbia -- Early media homes -- Property dramas and home makeovers -- Multiscreen home time -- Alternative domesticities -- Home mobilities and migration -- Smart home…
"Spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, this book investigates how home is imagined, staged and experienced in western culture. Questions about meanings of 'home' and domestic culture are triggered by dramatic changes in values and ideals about the dwellings we live …
Introduction -- Antaeus and Hercules -- The web of meaning -- The cultivation of place -- The landscape of memory -- Habits of home -- A sacred economy -- Gifting and recognition -- The boundaries of home -- Parish and province -- Conclusion: the future of home
"A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. While Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home w…
"For a Jew, describing a place as hòme' conveys connotations of heritage as well as of residence. Additionally, feeling àt home' suggests a sense of comfort in one's social surroundings. The questions at the heart of this volume are: what things make a home Jèwish', materially a…
A multifaceted exploration of what makes a home 'Jewish', materially and emotionally, and of what it takes to make Jews feel 'at home' in their environment.
"For a Jew, describing a place as hòme' conveys connotations of heritage as well as of residence. Additionally, feeling àt home' suggests a sense of comfort in one's social surroundings. The questions at the heart of this volume are: what things make a home Jèwish', materially a…
