Homesickness: Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment
- ISBN-10
- 1517906539
- ISBN-13
- 9781517906535
- Series
- Homesickness
- Category
- Homesickness
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Author
- Ryan Hediger
Description
Introducing a posthumanist concept of nostalgia to analyze steadily widening themes of animality, home, travel, slavery, shopping, and war in U.S. literature after 19450 In the Anthropocene, as climate change renders environments less stable, the human desire for place underscores the weakness of the individual in the face of the world. In this book, Ryan Hediger introduces a distinctive notion of homesickness, one in which the longing for place demonstrates not only human vulnerability but also intersubjectivity beyond the human. Arguing that this feeling is unavoidable and characteristically posthumanist, Hediger studies the complex mix of attitudes toward home, the homely, and the familiar in an age of resurgent cosmopolitanism, especially eco-cosmopolitanism. Homesickness closely examines U.S. literature mostly after 1945, including prominent writers such as Annie Proulx, Marilynne Robinson, and Ernest Hemingway, in light of the challenges and themes of the Anthropocene. 0Recasting an expansive range of fields through the lens of homesickness-from ecocriticism to animal studies and disability studies, (eco)philosophy to posthumanist theory-Homesickness speaks not only to the desire for a physical structure or place but also to a wide range of longings and dislocations, including those related to subjectivity, memory, bodies, literary form, and language.
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- 2019-10-15
- 352 pages
- Ebook
- U of Minnesota Press
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