Reading Home Cultures Through Books (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti; Dalbello, Marija

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This wide-ranging, comparative and multidisciplinary collection addresses the significance of books in creating the idea of home. The chapters present cases that reveal the affective and sensory dimensions of books and reading in the practice of everyday life of individuals, in communities, and in society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000538915
• Artikelnr.: 63387734

Autorenporträt

Kirsti Salmi-Niklander is a Senior Lecturer in Folklore Studies in the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Marija Dalbello is a Professor of Information Studies in the School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: HOW TO READ HOME CULTURES THROUGH BOOKS?
PART I: HISTORIES
Chapter 1: IMMIGRANTS BEING AT HOME IN LIBRARIES. HOW THE IMMIGRANTS BROUGHT THEIR HOME TO THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Chapter 2: LITERACY, ABC BOOKS AND PRIMARY READERS IN FINNISH IMMIGRANT HOMES AND COMMUNITIES IN THE U.S.
Chapter 3: "A PARADE OF HOME." REPRESENTATIONS OF HOME IN GREEK AMERICAN COMMUNITY ALBUMS
PART II: TRANSFORMATION
Chapter 4: BOOKS AND THE CREATION OF THE MIDDLE-CLASS HOME IN AMERICAN NINETEENTH-CENTURY DOMESTIC FICTION
Chapter 5: SIMULATING DOMESTIC SPACE IN 1990S TECHNOCULTURE: TIMOTHY LEARY'S VIRTUAL HOME LIBRARY
Chapter 6: BOOKSHELVES CREATE A COZY ATMOSPHERE: AFFECTIVE AN EMOTIONAL MATERIALITY IN BOOKREADING PRACTICES
PART III: L'ENVOI
Chapter 7: WRITING HOME CULTURES THROUGH BOOKS AT THE TIME OF THE PANDEMIC
Patience and Fortitude in the First Person
My Library as a Second Home
Touching the Books
My Bookcase, My Anchor
or Some Reflections on My (Zoom) Background
What We Lose When We Work From Home
Listening to Books through Lockdown