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Perspectives on Homelessness /
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 th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2022.
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| Colección: | American Studies - A Monograph ;
314 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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