American Houses: Literary Spaces of Resistance and Desire

American Houses: Literary Spaces of Resistance and Desire

Alsina Risquez, Cristina; Andres, Rodrigo

Brill

08/2022

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Notes on Contributors



1 American Houses, American Literature

?Rodrigo Andres



PART 1: Houses: Queer Affiliations and Temporalities



2 The House as Alternative to Familial Space and Time in Herman Melville's "I and My Chimney"

?Rodrigo Andres

3 Paths Well-Trodden and "Desire Lines" in Willa Cather's The Professor's House

?Cristina Alsina Risquez

4 Queering the American Family Home: The Aesthetics of Place and the Ethos of Domesticity in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

?Elena Ortells



PART 2: The Legacy of the House Divided



5 Cape Coast Castle in the Sky: Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the Im/possibility of the American Dream

?Cynthia Lytle

6 The Haunted Plantation: Ghosts, Graves, and Transformation as Resistance in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman

?Ian Green

7 A House is a House is a House: Toni Morrison's Politics of Domesticity, Redemption and Healing in Beloved and Home

?Mar Gallego

8 The Politics of Affect with/in the African American Mansion in Stephanie Powell Watts's No One Is Coming to Save Us

?Vicent Cucarella-Ramon

9 "A Lot More Deadly": Gender and the Black Spatial Imaginary in U.S. Prison Writings

?Eva Puyuelo Urena



PART 3: Troubled Boundaries of the Domestic Space



10 Thoreau's Unhoused

?Michael Jonik

11 Too Tight for Comfort: Shipboard Distance as the Prerequisite for Personal Intimacy in Herman Melville's White-Jacket

?Arturo Corujo

12 "Maybe There's Nobody to Shoot": The Disappearing Landlord in 20th-Century U.S. Fiction

?Cynthia Stretch

13 Woody Guthrie's House of Earth: A Manifesto in Adobe as a Response to Houselessness and Domicide in Post-Depression Years

?Carme Manuel

14 The Arrivant in Toni Morrison's Paradise: Deviation, Iteration, Intersection

?Paula Martin-Salvan

15 "A house at odds with itself": Barbara Kingsolver's Unsheltered

?Dolores Resano

16 Afterword: In a Fictional House

?Wyn Kelley



Index
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Affect; Community; Domestic Studies; Dwelling-with; Gender; Queer Studies; Queer Temporalities; Race; U.S.; US Literature; Unhousing; United States; domestic; literary; literature; queer; temporalities