Stories of home : place, identity, exile /
"Notions of home are of increasing concern to persons who are interested in the unfolding narratives of inhabitation, displacement and dislocation, and exile. Home is viewed as a multidimensional theoretical concept that can have contradictory meanings; homes may be understood as spaces as well...
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Lexington Books,
2015
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Table of Contents:
- I. Home as (in)habitation: place, movement, and identity : Tracing homes habits: affective rhythms / Devika Chawla
- Musing on nomadism: being and becoming at home on the reindeer range / Myrdene Anderson
- (Be)coming home / Jonathan Wyatt and Tessa Wyatt
- II. Homelessness and other "homes" : Childhood homelessness: a phenomenological reflection / Erik Garrett
- Foothills of modernity: voicing home in Appalachia / Timothy Baird
- Motown magic and/in haunted hollers: from one othered America to another / Rebecca Mercado Thornton
- The exile narratives / Amardo Rodriguez
- III. Modernist re-visions of home / Men narrating their paths to stay-at-home fathering / Caryn Medved
- Home as a place of protest: Scott and Helen Nearing and the construction of the modern American homestead / Jennifer L. Adams
- Trashing home / Sean Gleason
- IV. Home as loss, displacement, and resilience : A kind of hush: adoptee diasporas and the impossibility of home / Anne M. Harris
- Bodies of working class knowledge, imaginative mobilities, and kinesthetic homes / Stacy Holman Jones
- Finding the backroads home / Tessa W. Carr
- On Dorion Street / Craig Gingrich-Philbrook
- Conclusion : Home, again / Stacy Holman Jones.
