Burning down the house : recycling domesticity / edited by Rosemary Marangoly George.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George, Rosemary Marangoly.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families.

Home.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

vii, 420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.

Summary:

The essays in this collection work to dislodge the study of domesticity from exclusive considerations of the private home and homemaking practices. Moving beyond simple gender analyses of the domestic sphere to address other complexities that shape this arena, Burning Down the House presents domesticity as a manifestation of larger national and imperial projects. However, it also reveals how the domestic can provide a means of critiquing these unwieldy ideological structures from within. Several essays in this collection consider the economic, racial, and gendered arrangements that need to be in place nationally and often internationally before respectable homemaking is successfully achieved.

Contents:

1 Recycling: Long Routes to and from Domestic Fixes / Rosemary Marangoly George 1

Part 1 On the Road: Nations, Empires, Texts, Homes

2 Why Daughters Die: The Racial Logic of American Sentimentalism / Nancy Armstrong 23

3 Homes in the Empire, Empires in the Home / Rosemary Marangoly George 47

4 Modernism and Domesticity: From Conrad's Eastern Road to Stein's Empty Spaces in the Home / Amie Parry 75

5 Homo-Economics: Queer Sexualities in a Transnational Frame / Gayatri Gopinath 102

Part 2 Domesticity: Redrawing Urban Space

6 Reconstructed Identity: Spatial Change and Adaptation in a Greek-Macedonian Refugee Neighborhood / Dayana Salazar 127

7 Counterparts: Dubliners, Masculinity, and Temperance Nationalism / David Lloyd 150

8 Repetition and Unhousing in Nawal El-Saadawi / Aparajita Sagar 170

9 Fast Capital, Race, Modernity, and the Monster House / Katharyne Mitchell 187

Part 3 Nostalgia, Modernity, and Other Domestic Fictions

10 Dishing Up Dixie: Recycling the Old South in the Early-Twentieth-Century Domestic Ideal / Kimberly Wallace Sanders 215

11 Domestic Renovations: The Marriage Plot, the Lodging House, and Lesbian Desire in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces / Siobhan Somerville 232

12 "Homesick for Those Memories": The Gendering of Historical Memory in Women's Narratives of the Vietnam War / John Lowney 257

13 Domesticity and the Demon Mother: A Review Essay of Sorts / Ann duCille 279

Part 4 Bringing Down the House: Dreaming, Revising, Burning

14 Feminists Are Modern; Families Are Indian: Women's Magazines and the Politics of Modernity / K. Srilata 301

15 In a Neighborhood of Another Color: Latina/Latino Struggles for Home / Susan Sanchez Casal 326

16 Home, Houses, Nonidentity: Paris Is Burning / Chandan C. Reddy 355

17 The Squat, the Tearoom, the Urn, and the Designer Bathroom: Citing Home in Ken Loach's Riff Raff / Maurizia Boscagli 380.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

081333425X

OCLC:

38288587