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Homesickness : of trauma and the longing for place in a changing environment / Ryan Hediger.

Van Pelt Library HM861 .H43 2019
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hediger, Ryan, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Social ecology.
Place attachment.
Homesickness.
Physical Description:
xi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
Contents:
Suffering in our animal skins: uncanny embodiment, wildness, and mortal place in Annie Proulx
Burning down the house: weak agency and the self unhoused
The elephant in the writing room: Heminway's travels, eco-cosmopolitanism, and the desire for Africa
"124 was spiteful": forced mobility and unhomely care
Shopping as suffering: neoliberalism's slow violence, Walmart, and the fallacy of free choice
Killing words in war: homesick soldiers and the shadow of agency
Conclusion. Dreams of home: literature and the cultural work of the posthumanities.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-331) and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Hediger, Ryan, author. Homesickness
ISBN:
9781517906535
1517906539
9781517906542
1517906547
OCLC:
1082299740

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