{"id":2237,"date":"2018-04-29T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T13:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2018-04-29T15:37:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T13:37:11","slug":"book-announcement-fictions-of-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/blog\/book-announcement-fictions-of-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Announcement: Fictions of Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Martin M\u00fchlheim, <em>Fictions of Home: Narratives of Alienation and Belonging, 1850-2000<\/em><\/h1>\n<h2>Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA), Vol. 143<\/h2>\n<p><strong>2018, 384 Pages<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u20ac[D] 78,00<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ISBN 978-3-7720-8637-3<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>eISBN 978-3-7720-5637-6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/blog\/book-announcement-fictions-of-home\/fictions-home\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2238\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2238\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/fictions-home.png?resize=209%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/fictions-home.png?resize=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1 209w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/fictions-home.png?w=522&amp;ssl=1 522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a>This study aims to counter right-wing discourses of belonging. It discusses key theoretical concepts for the study of home, focusing in particular on Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic contributions. The book also maintains that postmodern celebrations of nomadism and exile tend to be incapable of providing an alternative to conservative, xenophobic appropriations of home.<\/p>\n<p>In detailed readings of one film and six novels, a view is developed according to which home, as a spatio-temporal imaginary, is rooted in our species being, and as such constitutes the inevitable starting point for any progressive politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d[A] thoroughly impressive, productive and useful work. [&#8230; T]he writing is admirably lucid and engaging.\u201d \u2013 Randall Stevenson, Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, University of Edinburgh<\/p>\n<p>\u201d[E]ach chapter is insightful and [&#8230; the] use of a very wide range of theorists to provide different angles of vision is deftly and impressively handled.\u201d \u2013 Pam Morris, author of <em>Realism<\/em> (New Critical Idiom series) &amp; <em>Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/contributors\/stylesheet\/file-extension-pdf-32\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-445\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-445 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/File-Extension-Pdf-32.png?resize=32%2C32&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/essenglish.org\/messenger\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/SAA_143.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-445\">SAA Advertisement Sheet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin M\u00fchlheim, Fictions of Home: Narratives of Alienation and Belonging, 1850-2000 Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA), Vol. 143 2018, 384 Pages \u20ac[D] 78,00 ISBN 978-3-7720-8637-3 eISBN 978-3-7720-5637-6 This study aims to counter right-wing discourses of belonging. It discusses key theoretical concepts for the study of home, focusing in particular on Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic contributions. 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