Home Matters - Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction (Hardcover, Dir Com/Deleted)

Despite its typically regressive associations with homesickness, nostalgia may also function progressively by imaginatively securing, and mending or repairing the past. Looking at fiction by British and American women writers of different generations and ethnicities, Rubenstein explores tensions between home and exile, insider and outsider, longing and belonging, loss and recovery, mourning and emotional resolution. She argues that nostalgia is a strategy for interrogating not only notions of home, homesickness, and homeland but also cultural or historical dislocation, aging, and moral responsibility. These narratives address a concern in contemporary women's experience: personal and/or cultural displacement are restored--imaginatively, at least--by a vision of healing and emotional repair.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2000
First published:	February 2001
Authors:	R Rubenstein
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	210
Edition:	Dir Com/Deleted
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-23875-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	0-312-23875-4
Barcode:	9780312238759

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