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Home Matters - Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)
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Home Matters - Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)
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Despite its typically regressive associations with homesickness,
the longing associated with nostalgia may also function
progressively as a vehicle for imaginatively 'fixing' the past in
two senses: securing and mending or repairing. Considering fiction
by two British and six American women writers of different
generations and ethnicities, this study explores tensions between
home and exile, insider and outsider, longing and belonging, loss
and recovery. Rubenstein argues that nostalgia functions
narratively as a strategy for interrogating not only notions of
home, homesickness, and homeland but also cultural historical
dislocation, aging, and moral responsibility. These narratives
re-frame a significant locus of concern in contemporary (female)
experience: personal and/or cultural dis-placement and longing for
home are ultimately transmuted - imaginatively, at least - by a
restorative vision that enables healing and emotional repair.
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