Theories of the domestic stemming from the 19th century have
focused on the home as a refuge and place of repose for the family,
a nurturing environment for children and a safe place for visitors.
Under this conception, domestic space is positioned as nurturing
and private, a refuge and place of retreat which gave rise to
theories of 'home as haven'. While, arguably, some social
conditions might suggest this is the case, Domesticity Under Siege
exposes a different world, one in which the boundaries of nurturing
domesticity collide with both outside and inside agents. Whether
these agents are external military forces, psychological trauma or
familial violence, they re-position meta-narratives of domesticity,
not through identity politics or specialized subgroup experience,
but relative to the actions of the world around an inhabited
domain. That is, when home is constituted as a private realm, a
place where individuals or groups can reside in 'safety and
comfort', it is argued as a place in which the individual exercises
control or power. However, there are many occasions when forces act
upon the home and threaten aspects of safety and comfort, often
through such things as ruination, violence, mortality, and
infestation. Organised around four thematic sections, 'Microbes,
Animals and Insects', 'Human Agents', Wars and Disasters as Agents'
and 'Hauntings, Eeriness and the Uncanny', chapters provide a range
of approaches to the home which challenge notions of 'haven' and
reflect major causes that have played an important role in
undermining the modern home. Examples and case studies explore the
domestic screen, hoarding, hauntings, violence and imprisonment in
the home, wartime interior art, the Hanover Merzbau and Wolfgang
Staudte's 1946 film Die Moerder sind unter uns ('The Murderers are
Among Us').
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