Overview
- Draws on geocritical, spatiality, and mobilities studies
- Examines the concept of “home” in literature, film, and culture
- Provides transnational and global perspectives
Part of the book series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies (GSLS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Home on an Individual Scale and the Philosophy of Learning to Dwell
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Home on an Interpersonal Scale and the Economics of Mobility
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Home on a Social Scale and the Politics of (Hostile) Hospitality
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Home on a Global Scale and the Relevance of Cosmopolitanism
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives
Authors: Aleksandra Bida
Series Title: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97967-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97966-3Published: 02 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07428-9Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97967-0Published: 22 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2578-9694
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5188
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 241
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Literary Theory, Fiction