{"product_id":"home-in-america-9780674057715","title":"Home in America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmericans encounter their homes in ways comforting and haunting: as an imagined refuge or a place of mastery and domination, a destination or a place to escape. Drawing on literature, personal experience, and the histories of slavery, incarceration, and homesteading, Thomas Dumm offers a meditation on the richness and poverty of the idea of home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Dumm has endowed new intellectual life in the politics of location. This is a wise, sensitive, poetic, and relentlessly thoughtful inquiry into the meanings of being at home today. Among other things, it offers a convincing and elaborate answer to Adorno’s old assertion that the highest form of morality involves systematic estrangement from the possibility of feeling at home in your own home. -- Paul Gilroy, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Black Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Dumm offers a series of reflections that is at once compelling and convincing, yet subtle and challenging—not just intellectually, but personally. This book is as much a meditation on our contemporary human condition as it is a scholarly contribution. -- Davide Panagia, University of California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHome in America\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful book on a central paradox in American life: the fact that our home-oriented society finds it impossible to be present, to be and remain where we are, even as we claim to seek just that. Dumm zeroes in on a long dark history of the American home, a place of love and comfort, but also of slavery, rape, and abuse. While reading, I kept thinking that people don’t write books like this anymore, in this style that bespeaks the very longing that the book expresses, a kind of slow, meditative process of thinking rarely practiced these days. It allows us a deep connection to the moment, to being here, at home. This is a book we are sorely in need of. -- James Martel, San Francisco State University","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403547418967,"sku":"9780674057715","price":28.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674057715.jpg?v=1730483791","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/home-in-america-9780674057715","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}