Perspectives on homelessness / edited by Anna Flügge, Giorgia Tommasi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flügge, Anna Maria, editor.

Tommasi, Giorgia, editor.

Series:

American Studies – A Monograph Series

American Studies - A Monograph Series, 0178-1987 ; Volume 314

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Homelessness--United States.

Homelessness.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (451 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2022]

Summary:

As growing economic and racial inequality continues to shape American society, homelessness remains an urgent issue. Embedded in American history, and more recently exacerbated by the 2008 financial and housing crisis, a new wave of homelessness has emerged as the U.S. has faced surging evictions throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The essays in this volume explore homelessness both as the literal state of being unsheltered and as the modern and contemporary condition of being and/or feeling estranged from society. They also reflect on the meaning of home in relation to race, class, gender, migration and mobility in an American and transnational context. Contributions include interdisciplinary research that investigates representations of home and homelessness in modern and contemporary fiction, film, and videogames, as well as philosophical, historical, political and architectural discussions of homelessness.

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

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'

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

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'

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Flügge, Anna Perspectives on Homelessness

ISBN:

9783825385187

3825385183