Title: Rootedness
Description: People have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth-and nations-from which they came. In 'Rootedness', Christy Wampole looks toward philosophy, ecology, literature, history, and politics to demonstrate how the metaphor of the root-surfacing often in an unexpected variety of places, from the family tree to folk etymology to the language of exile-developed in twentieth-century Europe. Wampole examines both the philosophical implications of this metaphor and its political evolution.
Subjects: Roots (botany), French literature, history and criticism, 20th century, German literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Alienation (philosophy), French literature, Roots (Botany) in literature, Affiliation (Philosophy), German literature, History and criticism, Metaphor in literature