Homesickness: Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment

by Ryan Hediger

Book Overview

Introducing a posthumanist concept of nostalgia to analyze steadily widening themes of animality, home, travel, slavery, shopping, and war in U.S. literature after 1945

In the Anthropocene, as climate change renders environments less stable, the human desire for place underscores the weakness of the individual in the face of the world. In this book, Ryan Hediger introduces a distinctive notion of homesickness, one in which the longing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517906547
• ISBN13: 9781517906542
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"