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American Houses: Literary Spaces of Resistance and Desire / (Record no. 41436)

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245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title American Houses: Literary Spaces of Resistance and Desire /
Statement of responsibility, etc. edited by Rodrigo Andrés and Cristina Alsina Rísquez.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Leiden ;
-- Boston :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Brill,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2022.
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Series statement European Perspectives on the United States ;
Volume/sequential designation 3
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General note This volume analyses the representation of domestic spaces in landmark texts of American literature, focusing on the relationship between houses and subjectivities, and illustrates the necessity and benefits of integrating materiality and housing research into the field of literary studies.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Title Notes on Contributors --
-- 1 American Houses, American Literature /
Statement of responsibility Rodrigo Andrés --
Title PART 1: Houses: Queer Affiliations and Temporalities --
-- 2 The House as Alternative to Familial Space and Time in Herman Melville’s “I and My Chimney” /
Statement of responsibility Rodrigo Andrés --
Title 3 Paths Well-Trodden and “Desire Lines” in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House /
Statement of responsibility Cristina Alsina Rísquez --
Title 4 Queering the American Family Home: The Aesthetics of Place and the Ethos of Domesticity in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic /
Statement of responsibility Elena Ortells --
Title PART 2: The Legacy of the House Divided --
-- 5 Cape Coast Castle in the Sky: Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the Im/possibility of the American Dream /
Statement of responsibility Cynthia Lytle --
Title 6 The Haunted Plantation: Ghosts, Graves, and Transformation as Resistance in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman /
Statement of responsibility Ian Green --
Title 7 A House is a House is a House: Toni Morrison’s Politics of Domesticity, Redemption and Healing in Beloved and Home /
Statement of responsibility Mar Gallego --
Title 8 The Politics of Affect with/in the African American Mansion in Stephanie Powell Watts’s No One Is Coming to Save Us /
Statement of responsibility Vicent Cucarella-Ramon --
Title 9 “A Lot More Deadly”: Gender and the Black Spatial Imaginary in U.S. Prison Writings /
Statement of responsibility Eva Puyuelo Ureña --
Title PART 3: Troubled Boundaries of the Domestic Space --
-- 10 Thoreau’s Unhoused /
Statement of responsibility Michael Jonik --
Title 11 Too Tight for Comfort: Shipboard Distance as the Prerequisite for Personal Intimacy in Herman Melville’s White-Jacket /
Statement of responsibility Arturo Corujo --
Title 12 “Maybe There’s Nobody to Shoot”: The Disappearing Landlord in 20th-Century U.S. Fiction /
Statement of responsibility Cynthia Stretch --
Title 13 Woody Guthrie’s House of Earth: A Manifesto in Adobe as a Response to Houselessness and Domicide in Post-Depression Years /
Statement of responsibility Carme Manuel --
Title 14 The Arrivant in Toni Morrison’s Paradise: Deviation, Iteration, Intersection /
Statement of responsibility Paula Martín-Salván --
Title 15 “A house at odds with itself”: Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered /
Statement of responsibility Dolores Resano --
Title 16 Afterword: In a Fictional House /
Statement of responsibility Wyn Kelley --
Title Index.
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Summary, etc. Already in 1854, Henry David Thoreau had declared in Walden that “Most men appear never to have considered what a house is” (225). Like Thoreau, many other renowned American writers have considered what houses are and, particularly, what houses do, and they have created fictional dwellings that function not only as settings, but as actual central characters in their works. The volume is specifically concerned with the structure, the organization, and the objects inside houses, and argues that the space defined by rooms and their contents influences the consciousness, the imaginations, and the experiences of the humans who inhabit them. Contributors are: Cristina Alsina Rísquez, Rodrigo Andrés, Vicent Cucarella-Ramon, Arturo Corujo, Mar Gallego, Ian Green, Michael Jonik, Wyn Kelley, Cynthia Lytle, Carme Manuel, Paula Martín-Salván, Elena Ortells, Eva Puyuelo-Ureña, Dolores Resano, and Cynthia Stretch.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element American fiction
General subdivision History and criticism.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Dwellings in literature.
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Genre/form data or focus term Literary criticism.
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Personal name Andrés, Rodrigo,
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Personal name Rísquez, Cristina Alsina,
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Relationship information Print version:
Title American Houses: Literary Spaces of Resistance and Desire.
Place, publisher, and date of publication Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022
International Standard Book Number 9789004520318
Record control number (DLC) 2022023139
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Uniform title European Perspectives on the United States ;
Volume/sequential designation 3.
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004521117">http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004521117</a>

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