ABSTRACT
This book views domesticity through multiple frames and surveys the rhetoric and practices of domestication in contemporary cultures. It also examines the consequences and costs of homemaking in various geographic and textual locations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|104 pages
On the Road: Nations, Empires, Texts, Homes
chapter Chapter Four|27 pages
Modernism and Domesticity: From Conrad's Eastern Road to Stein's Empty Spaces in the Home
part Two|88 pages
DomestiCity: Redrawing Urban Space
chapter Chapter Six|23 pages
Reconstructed Identity: Spatial Change and Adaptation in a Greek-Macedonian Refugee Neighborhood
part Three|85 pages
Nostalgia, Modernity, and Other Domestic Fictions
chapter Chapter Ten|17 pages
Dishing Up Dixie: Recycling the Old South in the Early-Twentieth-Century Domestic Ideal
chapter Chapter Eleven|25 pages
Domestic Renovations: The Marriage Plot, the Lodging House, and Lesbian Desire in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces
chapter Chapter Twelve|22 pages
"Homesick for Those Memories": The Gendering of Historical Memory in Women's Narratives of the Vietnam War
part Four|100 pages
Bringing Down the House: Dreaming, Revising, Burning
