Stories of Home - Place, Identity, Exile

This book explores the experience of home and what home says about the people we become. It benefits students and scholars of communication, cultural studies, performance studies, geography, gender studies, diaspora studies, and anthropology; it stands as an exemplar in qualitative, interpretive, critical, and auto-ethnographic methodology courses.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Tracing Home's Habits: Affective Rhythms, Devika Chawla
Chapter 2: Musing on Nomadism: Being and Becoming at Home on the Reindeer Range, Myrdene Anderson
Chapter 3: Be(Coming) Home, Jonathan Wyatt and Tessa Wyatt
Chapter 4: Childhood Homelessness: A Phenomenologial Reflection, Erik Garrett
Chapter 5: Home/less in Appalachia, Timothy Baird
Chapter 6: Motown Magic and Haunted Hollers: From One Othered America to Another, Rebecca Mercado Thornton
Chapter 7: The Exile Narratives, Amarado Rodriguez
Chapter 8: Men Making Home, Caryn Medved
Chapter 9: Scott and Helen Nearing and the Narrative of the American Homestead as Retreat, Jennifer Adams
Chapter 10: Trashing Home, Sean Gleason
Chapter 11: A Kind of Hush: Adoptee Diasporas and the Impossibility of Home, Anne M. Harris
Chapter 12: Bodies of Working Class Knowledge, Imaginative Mobilities, and Kinesthetic Homes, Stacy Holman Jones
Chapter 13: Finding the Backroads Home, Tessa W. Carr
Chapter 14: Becoming Home (Elsewhere): Patriarchy Du Jour and the Resilience of Privilege, Craig Gingrich-Philbrook
Conclusion: Home, Again, Stacy Holman Jones and Devika Chawla

About the author

Dr. Devika Chawla is associate professor and interim associate director for graduate studies in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University, Athens.

Stacy Holman Jones is professor in the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University.

Summary

This book explores the experience of home and what home says about the people we become. It benefits students and scholars of communication, cultural studies, performance studies, geography, gender studies, diaspora studies, and anthropology; it stands as an exemplar in qualitative, interpretive, critical, and auto-ethnographic methodology courses.

Product details

• Authors: Chawla, Devika Holman Jones Chawla
• Assisted by: Devika Chawla (Editor), Stacy Holman Jones (Editor), Holman Jones Stacy (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780739194942
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9494-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Migration, immigration & emigration, Communication Studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Human Geography, Population and migration geography, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, Autoethnography;Diaspora;Home;Identity;Migration