ABSTRACT
One major reason why the notion of home often gets politicized is because of the fluidity of meaning that it offers. This chapter refers to some key ideas from Douglas Porteus’ concept of the ‘Territorial Triad’ of satisfactions when talking about the ethological concept of territoriality in exploration of how north-east writers write about home. It shows how Martin and Talpade’s second modality of ‘not being home’ is further problematized for some writers of the north-east. The search for home is neither a nostalgic retreat to a familiar past nor a defensive reaction against the brutalities of the present. Porteus understands the concept of ‘home’ as being the ‘territorial core of all societies’.
