{"product_id":"american-houses-literary-spaces-of-resistance-and-desire-9789004520318","title":"American Houses: Literary Spaces of Resistance and Desire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlready 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.    Winner of the Spanish Association for American Studies’ Javier Coy Award 2022 for best edited volume.    Contributors are: Cristina Alsina Rísquez, Rodrigo Andrés, Vicent Cucarella-Ramon, Arturo Corujo, Mar Gallego, Ian Green, Michael Jonik, Wyn Kelley, Cynthia Lytle, Carme Manuel, Paula Martín-Salván, Elena Ortells, Eva Puyuelo-Ureña, Dolores Resano, and Cynthia Stretch.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors    1 American Houses, American Literature   Rodrigo Andrés    PART 1: Houses: Queer Affiliations and Temporalities    2 The House as Alternative to Familial Space and Time in Herman Melville’s “I and My Chimney”   Rodrigo Andrés  3 Paths Well-Trodden and “Desire Lines” in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House   Cristina Alsina Rísquez  4 Queering the American Family Home: The Aesthetics of Place and the Ethos of Domesticity in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic   Elena Ortells    PART 2: The Legacy of the House Divided    5 Cape Coast Castle in the Sky: Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the Im\/possibility of the American Dream   Cynthia Lytle  6 The Haunted Plantation: Ghosts, Graves, and Transformation as Resistance in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman   Ian Green   7 A House is a House is a House: Toni Morrison’s Politics of Domesticity, Redemption and Healing in Beloved and Home   Mar Gallego  8 The Politics of Affect with\/in the African American Mansion in Stephanie Powell Watts’s No One Is Coming to Save Us   Vicent Cucarella-Ramon  9 “A Lot More Deadly”: Gender and the Black Spatial Imaginary in U.S. Prison Writings   Eva Puyuelo Ureña    PART 3: Troubled Boundaries of the Domestic Space    10 Thoreau’s Unhoused   Michael Jonik  11 Too Tight for Comfort: Shipboard Distance as the Prerequisite for Personal Intimacy in Herman Melville’s White-Jacket   Arturo Corujo  12 “Maybe There’s Nobody to Shoot”: The Disappearing Landlord in 20th-Century U.S. Fiction   Cynthia Stretch  13 Woody Guthrie’s House of Earth: A Manifesto in Adobe as a Response to Houselessness and Domicide in Post-Depression Years   Carme Manuel  14 The Arrivant in Toni Morrison’s Paradise: Deviation, Iteration, Intersection   Paula Martín-Salván  15 “A house at odds with itself”: Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered   Dolores Resano  16 Afterword: In a Fictional House   Wyn Kelley    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210848002391,"sku":"9789004520318","price":133.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-houses-literary-spaces-of-resistance-and-desire-9789004520318","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}