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Perspectives on Homelessness

Herausgeber: Flügge, Anna | Tommasi, Giorgia

American Studies – A Monograph Series, Bd. 314

2022

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Abstract

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.

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Cover C
Title Page 3
Imprint 4
Acknowledgments 7
Table of Contents 11
Anna Flügge and Giorgia Tommasi: Introduction 15
Homelessness: History, Theory, Practice 29
Klaus Benesch: The Failing Notion of Home in a Global Age 31
Bryan Banker: Against Home: Neanderthal Ontology, Movement, and Locative Thinking 49
Kent Hufford: “This Matter of Housing”: Theoretical and Historical Observations on Its Form and Technique fromthe 1930s 73
Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier: Power, Polemic, and the Right to Home: Race and the Reterritorialization of Post-Katrina New Orleans 97
Andrew Estes: Ideological and Aesthetic Homelessness: Federal Architecture in the Trump Era 117
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 137
Homelessness, Migration, Displacement 161
Amy Doherty Mohr: “What happens to a dream deferred?”: Home and Civil Rights in ‚A Raisin in the Sun‘ 163
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” 187
Giorgia Tommasi: “The city made us new”: Claiming Urban Space in Tommy Orange’s Novel ‚There There‘ 205
Carole Martin: Of Ghosts, Gifts, and Globetrotters: Tracing Homesand Homelands in Vietnamese American Refugee Short Stories 229
Michael Wutz: Veni, Vidi, Venice! ‚Gun Island‘ and the Climate of Homelessness 251
Loredana Filip: Be-Longing in TED Talks on “What is home?” and Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction 273
Sascha Pöhlmann: Individual and Social Failure in ‚CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience‘ 299
Challenging Notions of Home 327
Patrick Geiger: In ‚Walden‘’s Margins: Holes, Tents, Shanties and Other Uncanny Dwellings 329
Daniel Rees: Unfamiliar Places and the Search for Home 351
Anna Flügge: “Monstrous” Buildings in the Contemporary Los Angeles Short Story 373
Stephanie Berens: Transing the American Road Genre: Space, Mobility,and Identity in Sara Taylor’s Novel ‚The Lauras‘ 389
Christine Faber: Unsettled Dwelling in Dave Eggers’s ‚A Hologram for the King‘ 409
Ines Ghalleb: Homelessness: A Search for Habitable Planets in Outer Space in Interstellar and The Martian 423
Notes on Contributors 445
Backcover 450