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Author: Nicola Frost Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1785339567 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 190
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As we grapple with a growing refugee crisis, a hardening of anti-immigration sentiment, and deepening communal segregation in many parts of the developed world, questions of the nature of home and homemaking are increasingly critical. This collection brings ethnographic insight into the practices of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of contexts ranging from economic migrants to new Chinese industrial cities, Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine, and young gay South Asians in London. While negotiating widely varying social-political contexts, these studies suggest an unavoidably multiple understanding of home, while provoking new understandings of the material and symbolic process of making oneself “at home.”
Author: Nicola Frost Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1785339567 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 190
Book Description
As we grapple with a growing refugee crisis, a hardening of anti-immigration sentiment, and deepening communal segregation in many parts of the developed world, questions of the nature of home and homemaking are increasingly critical. This collection brings ethnographic insight into the practices of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of contexts ranging from economic migrants to new Chinese industrial cities, Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine, and young gay South Asians in London. While negotiating widely varying social-political contexts, these studies suggest an unavoidably multiple understanding of home, while provoking new understandings of the material and symbolic process of making oneself “at home.”
Author: Jaś Elsner Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 9781861890207 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 358
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A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, focusing on significant episodes and encounters in world history. The contributors to this collection include historians of art and of science, anthropologists, literary critics and mainstream cultural historians. Their essays encompass a challenging range of subjects, including the explorations of South America, India and Mexico; mountaineering in the Himalayas; space travel; science fiction; and American post-war travel fiction. Voyages and Visions is truly interdisciplinary, and essential reading for anyone interested in travel writing. With essays by Kasia Boddy, Michael Bravo, Peter Burke, Melissa Calaresu, Jesus Maria Carillo Castillo, Peter Hansen, Edward James, Nigel Leask, Joan-Pau Rubies and Wes Williams.
Author: Jeel Desai Publisher: Blue Ink ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 177
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Walking Towards Home is a book compiled by Jeel Desai that contains stories, poetries and letters about how people have found the way towards their REAL HOME. A home is a place where your SOUL resides. Each poem, story or letter that you will read here is penned by 30 talented writers from all over India. The book speaks their hearts. So let your fingers slide between these pages to experience the dawns, happiness and love that we all have tried to put in here.
Author: Janet Frame Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1458784126 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
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Self-styled writer Grace Cleave has writers block, and her anxiety is only augmented by her chronic aversion to leaving her home, to be ''among people, even for five or ten minutes.'' And so it is with trepidation that she accepts an invitation to spend a weekend away from London in the north of England. Once there, she feels more and more like a migratory bird, as the pull of her native New Zealand makes life away from it seem transitory. Grace longs to find her place in the world, but first she must learn to be comfortable in her own skin, feathers and all. From the author of An Angel at My Table comes an exquisitely written novel of exile and return, homesickness and belonging. Written in 1963 when Janet Frame was living in London, this is of a novel she considered too personal to be published while she was alive.
Author: Horace Gray Gilliland Publisher: ISBN: Category : Escapes Languages : en Pages : 322
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Engelsk bog skrevet af britisk soldat med erfaringer fra tyske fangelejre under den 1. Verdenskrig 1914-18. Han tilbragte to og et halvt år i tyske krigsfangelejre og beskriver her adskillige sådanne samt flugtforsøg. Bogen har planche med portræt af forfatteren.
Author: John Steinbeck Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780140187410 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 244
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An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers A Penguin Classic In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante. His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York. Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life—a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South—which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand—Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Jay Parini. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: David Crouch Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415181099 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 316
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Exploring diverse aspects of leisure and tourism, this text presents a mix of attitudes and ideas ranging from the methodologies behind leisure practices to detailed case studies which include Disneyland Paris and leisure in cyberspace.
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