Susan Harlan

Luggage (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

You can't think about travel without thinking about luggage. And baggage has baggage. Susan Harlan takes readers on a journey with the suitcases that support, accessorize, and accompany our lives. Along the way, she shows how the materials of travel - the carry-ons, totes, trunks, and train cases of the past and present - have stories to tell about displacement, home, gender, class, consumption, and labor.

Luggage considers bags as carefully curated microcosms of our domestic and professional selves, charting the evolution of travel across literature, film, and art. A simple suitcase, it turns out, contains more than you might think.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501329302
• Artikelnr.: 50920642

Autorenporträt

Susan Harlan is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University, USA. She is the author of Memories of War in Early Modern England (2016) and has written for, among others, Literary Hub, The Guardian US, The Toast, Roads & Kingdoms, The Awl, The Bitter Southerner, The Morning News, Curbed, The Common, Nowhere, Public Books, Jezebel, and Atlas Obscura.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Travel and Its Objects1. Luggage and Secrets2. The Language of Luggage3. Packing4. My Luggage5. Lost Luggage: Alabama's Unclaimed Baggage CenterAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNotesIndex

Rezensionen

In this welcome addition to Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series, author Susan Harlan packs just enough in her sturdy devices to finish this trip on time and under budget . What is luggage? What is baggage? Are they interchangeable terms, or does the former exist only because it started as the latter? Is a backpack luggage? Questions are asked and answered. PopMatters