Aleksandra Bida

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Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives (2018)Hardcover - 2018, 2 October 2018

Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives (2018)
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Part of Series
Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
Print Length
241 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Date Published
2 Oct 2018
ISBN-10
3319979663
ISBN-13
9783319979663

Description

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" and the experience of welcome as key to being able to map "one's place(s) in the world" are examined through Martin Heidegger's concept of dwelling, Zygmunt Bauman's notion of liquid modernity, Jacques Derrida's exploration of hostile hospitality, and Kwame Anthony Appiah's sense of cosmopolitanism as border-crossing conversation. To further explore these ideas, the book draws on multimodal literature and films that span genres, including gothic horror, fantasy and science fiction, thoughtful comedies, and politically nuanced tragedies. The quality that deeply links the texts is their ability to illuminate the stabilities and mobilities through which home not only mediates but also integrates an individual's diverse experiences of belonging in different locations as well as on different geocultural scales--from the intimate "household" to the more abstract "hometown" or "homeland" and beyond.

Product Details

Author:
Aleksandra Bida
Book Edition:
2018
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
2 October 2018
Dimensions:
21.01 x 14.81 x 1.6 cm
Genre:
Modern
ISBN-10:
3319979663
ISBN-13:
9783319979663
Language:
English
Location:
Cham
Pages:
241
Weight:
458.13 gm

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