Información General

• Autores: Rodrigo Andrés (coord.), Cristina Alsina Rísquez (coord.)
• Editores: Brill
• Año de publicación: 2022
• Colecciones: European Perspectives on the United States : The European Association for American Studies Series, 3
• País: Países Bajos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 978-90-04-52031-8, 978-90-04-52111-7
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  • American Houses: Literary Spaces of Resistance and Desire

    Richard Jorge Fernández

    Nexus, ISSN-e 1697-4646, Nº. 2, 2023, págs. 91-94

Resumen

• Already in 1854, Henry David Thoreau had declared in Walden that "Most men appear never to have considered what a house is" (225). Like Thoreau, many other renowned American writers have considered what houses are and, particularly, what houses do, and they have created fictional dwellings that function not only as settings, but as actual central characters in their works. The volume is specifically concerned with the structure, the organization, and the objects inside houses, and argues that the space defined by rooms and their contents influences the consciousness, the imaginations, and the experiences of the humans who inhabit them.

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Listado de artículos

• • American Houses, American Literature

    Rodrigo Andrés

    págs. 1-16

    

  • Part 1. Houses: Queer Affiliations and Temporalities

    • The House as Alternative to Familial Space and Time in HermanMelville’s “I and My Chimney”

      Rodrigo Andrés

      págs. 17-38

      

    • Paths Well-Trodden and “Desire Lines” in Willa Cather’s TheProfessor’s House

      Cristina Alsina Rísquez

      págs. 39-57

      

    • Queering the American Family Home: The Aesthetics of Place and the Ethos of Domesticity in Alison Bechdel’s

      Elena Ortells Montón

      págs. 58-76

      

  • Part 2. The Legacy of the House Divided

    • Cape Coast Castle in the Sky: Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and theIm/possibility of the American Dream

      Cynthia Lytle

      págs. 77-96

      

    • The Haunted Plantation: Ghosts, Graves, and Transformation asResistance in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman

      Ian Green

      págs. 97-114

      

    • A House is a House is a House: Toni Morrison’s Politics of Domesticity,Redemption and Healing in Beloved and Home

      Mar Gallego Durán

      págs. 115-134

      

    • The Politics of Affect with/in the African American Mansion inStephanie Powell Watts’s No One Is Coming to Save Us

      Vicent Cucarella Ramon

      págs. 135-152

      

    • “A Lot More Deadly”: Gender and the Black Spatial Imaginary in U.S.Prison Writings

      Eva Puyuelo Ureña

      págs. 153-172

      

  • Part 3. Troubled Boundaries of the Domestic Space

    • Thoreau’s Unhoused

      Michael Jonik

      págs. 173-189

      

    • Too Tight for Comfort: Shipboard Distance as the Prerequisite for Personal Intimacy in Herman Melville’s White-Jacket

      Arturo Corujo

      págs. 190-207

      

    • “Maybe There’s Nobody to Shoot": The Disappearing Landlord in 20th-Century U.S. Fiction

      Cynthia Stretch

      págs. 208-225

      

    • Woody Guthrie’s House of Earth: A Manifesto in Adobe as a Response toHouselessness and Domicide in Post-Depression Years

      Carme Manuel

      págs. 226-243

      

    • The Arrivant in Toni Morrison’s Paradise: Deviation, Iteration,Intersection

      Paula Martín Salván

      págs. 244-265

      

    • “A House at Odds with Itself”: Barbara Kingsolver’s «Unsheltered»

      Dolores Resano

      págs. 266-282

      

    • Afterword: In a Fictional House

      Wyn Kelley

      págs. 283-288