ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the meaning of home in literature and International Relations. It suggests that an understanding of home is valuable in making sense of the external forces that impact on it. Home and violence collide to produce physical and psychological homelessness, a condition resulting in escape or a resolution to endure. The history of colonialism and domination has impacted on the resident of the home in all parts of the world. Homi Bhabba's introduction in the Franz Fanon's Black Skin, White Mask, and makes explicit the impact of the relationship on the coloniser and the colonised, a dictatorship shaped on fear and desire creating cultural terrorism. The developments in information technology and communications particularly through the wide use of the internet and email are animating the multinational shift to a global society. Homelessness is not just a state of being with a home, excluded and denied a permanent address.
