Perspectives on Homelessness
By: Edited by Anna Flügge, Giogria Tommasi
Series: American Studies - A Monograph -- 314
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9783825385187
Subjects: Homelessness; American literature; History and criticism; Homelessness in literature; Itinérance
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Title Page; title: Imprint; title: Acknowledgments; title: Table of Contents; title: Anna Flügge and Giorgia Tommasi: Introduction; title: Homelessness: History, Theory, Practice; title: Klaus Benesch: The Failing Notion of Home in a Global Age; title: Bryan Banker: Against Home: Neanderthal Ontology, Movement, and Locative Thinking; title: Kent Hufford: "This Matter of Housing": Theoretical and Historical Observations on Its Form and Technique fromthe 1930s; title: Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier: Power, Polemic, and the Right to Home: Race and the Reterritorialization of Post-Katrina New Orleans; title: Andrew Estes: Ideological and Aesthetic Homelessness: Federal Architecture in the Trump Era; title: 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; title: Homelessness, Migration, Displacement; title: Amy Doherty Mohr: "What happens to a dream deferred?": Home and Civil Rights in 'A Raisin in the Sun'; title: 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"; title: Giorgia Tommasi: "The city made us new": Claiming Urban Space in Tommy Orange's Novel 'There There'; title: Carole Martin: Of Ghosts, Gifts, and Globetrotters: Tracing Homesand Homelands in Vietnamese American Refugee Short Stories; title: Michael Wutz: Veni, Vidi, Venice! 'Gun Island' and the Climate of Homelessness; title: Loredana Filip: Be-Longing in TED Talks on "What is home?" and Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction; title: Sascha Pöhlmann: Individual and Social Failure in 'CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience'; title: Challenging Notions of Home; title: Patrick Geiger: In 'Walden''s Margins: Holes, Tents, Shanties and Other Uncanny Dwellings; title: Daniel Rees: Unfamiliar Places and the Search for Home; title: Anna Flügge: "Monstrous" Buildings in the Contemporary Los Angeles Short Story; title: Stephanie Berens: Transing the American Road Genre: Space, Mobility,and Identity in Sara Taylor's Novel 'The Lauras'; title: Christine Faber: Unsettled Dwelling in Dave Eggers's 'A Hologram for the King'; title: Ines Ghalleb: Homelessness: A Search for Habitable Planets in Outer Space in Interstellar and The Martian; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Backcover