Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives

Aleksandra Bida

ISBN 10: 3030074285 / ISBN 13: 9783030074289

Verlag: Springer, 2019

Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives | Aleksandra Bida | Taschenbuch | Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies | xiv | Englisch | 2019 | Springer | EAN 9783030074289 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 117393231

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

 

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives
Verlag: Springer
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Einband: Taschenbuch
Zustand: Neu