Reading Home Cultures Through Books

ISBN-13: 9780367689162 / Miękka / 2023 / 142 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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 ;

O autorze

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.