Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction

by Roberta Rubenstein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349386634
• ISBN13: 9781349386635
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"