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'This richly evocative text investigates the strangeness at the heart of home through explorations in poetry, film contemporary art and popular culture. The spiritual challenges of dwelling in familiar, intimate and yet dangerous spaces are addressed with creative candour and academic rigour demonstrating our intense preoccupation with issues of security and identity. It is a compelling but unsettling read.' Heather Walton, University of Glasgow, UK'This is an impressively interdisciplinary volume that repositions our understanding of home. In a world where displacement seems to be the ruling sense for so many, even when at home , the essays here set out important bearings - literary, philosophical, religious and cultural - in helping us negotiate any return home or, as may be more the case, reconstruct the place we once thought was home. To engage with these various discussions is to displace, significantly and uncannily, displacement itself.'Andrew Hass, University of Stirling, UK

'The collection's variety, solid editing, and generally strong writing make this a work suited for large collections supporting interdisciplinary study in the humanities. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty.' Choice 'This richly evocative text investigates the strangeness at the heart of home through explorations in poetry, film contemporary art and popular culture. The spiritual challenges of dwelling in familiar, intimate and yet dangerous spaces are addressed with creative candour and academic rigour demonstrating our intense preoccupation with issues of security and identity. It is a compelling but unsettling read.' Heather Walton, University of Glasgow, UK 'This is an impressively interdisciplinary volume that repositions our understanding of home. In a world where displacement seems to be the ruling sense for so many, even when ""at home"", the essays here set out important bearings - literary, philosophical, religious and cultural - in helping us negotiate any return home or, as may be more the case, reconstruct the place we once thought was home. To engage with these various discussions is to displace, significantly and uncannily, displacement itself.' Andrew Hass, University of Stirling, UK

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Daniel Boscaljon, Instructor, University of Iowa, USA. Daniel Boscaljon, David Jasper, Christopher Merrill, Forrest Clingerman, Kimberly Carfore, Verna Marina Ehret,, Rachel Wagner, Nathan Eric Dickman, Thomas J.J. Altizer, Joni L. Kinsey, Michael Baltutis, David Seamon, Janet Donohoe, Hanna Janiszewska, Ayesha Malik.

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