| Description |
1 online resource (451 pages) |
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American Studies - A Monograph ; 314
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Imprint -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Anna Flügge and Giorgia Tommasi: Introduction -- Homelessness: History, Theory, Practice -- Klaus Benesch: The Failing Notion of Home in a Global Age -- Bryan Banker: Against Home: Neanderthal Ontology, Movement, and Locative Thinking -- Kent Hufford: "This Matter of Housing": Theoretical and Historical Observations on Its Form and Technique fromthe 1930s -- Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier: Power, Polemic, and the Right to Home: Race and the Reterritorialization of Post-Katrina New Orleans |
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Andrew Estes: Ideological and Aesthetic Homelessness: Federal Architecture in the Trump Era -- Milena Rinck: The Goethe-Institut LA's Program Series 'Worlds of Homelessness': International Perspectives on Homelessness in Germany's Foreign Cultural Relations and Education Policy -- Homelessness, Migration, Displacement -- Amy Doherty Mohr: "What happens to a dream deferred?": Home and Civil Rights in 'A Raisin in the Sun' |
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Kathrin Hartmann: Ethics and Poetics of American Homelessness Fiction: Georg Lukács's Concept of "Transcendental Homelessness" and David Means's Short Story "Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother" -- Giorgia Tommasi: "The city made us new": Claiming Urban Space in Tommy Orange's Novel 'There There' -- Carole Martin: Of Ghosts, Gifts, and Globetrotters: Tracing Homesand Homelands in Vietnamese American Refugee Short Stories -- Michael Wutz: Veni, Vidi, Venice! 'Gun Island' and the Climate of Homelessness |
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Loredana Filip: Be-Longing in TED Talks on "What is home?" and Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction -- Sascha Pöhlmann: Individual and Social Failure in 'CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience' -- Challenging Notions of Home -- Patrick Geiger: In 'Walden''s Margins: Holes, Tents, Shanties and Other Uncanny Dwellings -- Daniel Rees: Unfamiliar Places and the Search for Home -- Anna Flügge: "Monstrous" Buildings in the Contemporary Los Angeles Short Story -- Stephanie Berens: Transing the American Road Genre: Space, Mobility,and Identity in Sara Taylor's Novel 'The Lauras' |
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Christine Faber: Unsettled Dwelling in Dave Eggers's 'A Hologram for the King' -- Ines Ghalleb: Homelessness: A Search for Habitable Planets in Outer Space in Interstellar and The Martian -- Notes on Contributors -- Backcover |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Homelessness -- United States.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Homelessness in literature.
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American literature |
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Homelessness |
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Homelessness in literature |
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United States |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Flügge, Anna Maria, editor.
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Tommasi, Giorgia, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Flügge, Anna Perspectives on Homelessness Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter,c2022 9783825348861 |
| ISBN |
9783825385187 (electronic book) |
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3825385183 (electronic book) |
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