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* Weaves together autoethnographic memoir of both the letter
writers and the author * Shows how a specific literary account of
one relationship can be universally applicable to human
relationship experience * Published as part of the prestigious
Writing Lives autoethnography series
* Weaves together autoethnographic memoir of both the letter
writers and the author * Shows how a specific literary account of
one relationship can be universally applicable to human
relationship experience * Published as part of the prestigious
Writing Lives autoethnography series
Notions of home are of increasing concern to persons who are
interested in the unfolding narratives of inhabitation,
displacement and dislocation, and exile. Home is viewed as a
multidimensional theoretical concept that can have contradictory
meanings; homes may be understood as spaces as well as places, and
be associated with feelings, practices, and active states of being
and moving in the world. In this book, we offer a window into the
distinct ways that home is theorized and conceptualized across
disciplines. The essays in this volume pose and answer the
following critical and communicative questions about home: 1) How
do people "speak" and "story" home in their everyday lives? And
why? 2) Why and how is home-as a material presence, as a sense and
feeling, or as an absence-central to our notion of who we are, or
who we want to become as individuals, and in relation to others? 3)
What is the theoretical purchase in making home as a "unit of
analysis" in our fields of study? This collection engages home from
diverse contexts and disparate philosophical underpinnings; at the
same time the essays converse with each other by centering their
foci on the relationship between home, place, identity, and exile.
Home-how we experience it and what it that says about the "selves"
we come to occupy-is an exigent question of our contemporary
moment. Place, Identity, Exile: Storying Home Spaces delivers
timely and critical perspectives on these important questions.
Stories of Home: Place, Identity, Exile offers a window into the
distinct ways that home is theorized and conceptualized across
disciplines. The essays in this volume consider how people "speak"
and "story" home in their everyday lives, why "home" is central to
our notion of who we are, and how making home a unit of analysis in
research makes a strong conceptual contribution to the field of
communication. This collection engages home from diverse contexts
and disparate philosophical underpinnings; at the same time the
essays converse with each other by centering their foci on the
relationship between home, place, identity, and exile. Home-how we
experience it and what it says about the selves we come to
occupy-is an exigent question of our contemporary moment. Stories
of Home: Place, Identity, Exile delivers timely and critical
perspectives on these important questions.
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