Home in America : on loss and retrieval
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Home in America : on loss and retrieval
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The work Home in America : on loss and retrieval represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Home in America : on loss and retrieval
- Title remainder
- on loss and retrieval
- Statement of responsibility
- Thomas Dumm
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Home as an imagined refuge. Home as a place of mastery and domination. Home as a destination and the place we try to escape from. Thomas Dumm explores these distinctively American understandings of home. He takes us from Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and Henry David Thoreau's Walden to Laura Ingalls Wilder's little house on the prairie and Emily Dickinson's homestead, and finally to the house Herman Wallace imagined and that sustained him during his forty-one years of solitary confinement at Angola State Penitentiary. Dumm argues that it is impossible to separate the comforting and haunting aspects of home. Each chapter reveals a different dimension of the American experience of home: slavery at Monticello, radical individuality at Walden, Indian-hating in the pioneer experience, and the power of remembering and imagining home in extreme confinement as a means of escape. Hidden in these homes are ghosts--enslaved and imprisoned African Americans, displaced and massacred Native Americans, subordinated homemakers, all struggling to compose their lives in a place called home"--
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- Provided by publisher
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- MH/DLC
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ535
- LC item number
- .D76 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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