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A Place in the World

By: Arien Mack

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Hardcover | 30 April 1993

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Home, wrote Robert Frost, is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. And yet the idea of home has, in the modern world, become extremely problematic.

Robert Frost's words tellingly illustrate the centrality of home to the human experience, as an unconditional haven that one simply has, without having to earn.

Yet, we live at a time when the idea of home has become extremely problematic. Our homeless fill America's streets and shelters; the comfort of home is increasingly threatened by urban violence; and the world-wide plight of those exiled or fleeing from their homelands due to civil war, starvation, or political repression seems relentless.

The idea of home, bound as it is in family and in the roles of men and women, has a deep resonance that is not fully captured by its use as a social and political slogan. What is its history and ideology? What has it meant and how has its meaning changed? Home moves us perhaps most powerfully as absence or negation. Homelessness and exile are among the worst of conditions, bringing with them alienation, estrangement, and the feelings of greatest despair.

This volume, based on a multi-institutional collaboration between the New School for Social Research and five major New York City museums, and its resulting conference, convenes many of America's top scholarly minds to address historical and contemporary meanings of home. Among the issues specifically addressed are the artistic rendition of home in art and propaganda; literary meanings of home; exile through the ages; homelessness past; homelessness in Dickens; the homeless in New York City history; alienation and belonging; slavery and the female discovery of personal freedom; and, more generally, the home and family in historical perspective.

Contributing to the volume are Breyten Breytenbach, David Bromwich (Yale University), Sanford Budick (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Stanley Cavell (Harvard University), Mary Douglas, Tamara K. Hareven (University of Delaware), Eric Hobsbawm (Cambridge University, Emeritus), John Hollander (Yale University), Kim Hopper (Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research), George Kateb (Princeton University), Alexander Keyssar (Duke University), Steven Marcus (Columbia University), Orlando Patterson (Harvard University), Joseph Rykwert (University of Pennsylvania), Simon Schama (Harvard University), Alan Trachtenberg (Yale University), and Gwendolyn Wright (Columbia University).

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"A vibrant collection of classic and recent essays in American Jewish women's history that form the perfect starting point toexplore this burgeoning field. From the feminist politics of kosher meat boycotts and garment union organizing to the Jewish dimensions of modern dance and teenage diaries, this readable volume reveals the breadth and excitement of American Jewish women's history."
-Deborah Dash Moore, co-editor of "Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia"

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Published: 31st July 1995

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Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
The Idea of Home	p. 3
Introduction	p. 5
Homelands	p. 7
It All Depends	p. 27
House and Home	p. 47
Exile: A Keynote Address	p. 59
Introduction	p. 61
The Long March from Hearth to Heart	p. 65
Homelessness Past	p. 81
Introduction	p. 83
Homelessness and Dickens	p. 89
A Poor Apart: The Distancing of Homeless Men in New York's History	p. 107
Exile, Alienation, and Estrangement	p. 133
Introduction	p. 135
Alienation and Belonging to Humanity	p. 139
Slavery, Alienation, and the Female Discovery of Personal Freedom	p. 159
Rembrandt's and Freud's "Gerusalemme Liberata"	p. 189
Home as Place and Center for Private and Family Life	p. 209
Introduction	p. 211
Prescribing the Model Home	p. 213
The Home and the Family in Historical Perspective	p. 227
The Idea of a Home: A Kind of Space	p. 261
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