Domesticity Under Siege (eBook, ePUB)

Threatened Spaces of the Modern Home
Redaktion: Taylor, Mark; Meade, Terry; Downey, Georgina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Theories of the domestic stemming from the 19th century have focused on the home as a refuge and place of repose for the family, a nurturing environment for children and a safe place for visitors. Under this conception, domestic space is positioned as nurturing and private, a refuge and place of retreat which gave rise to theories of 'home as haven'. While, arguably, some social conditions might suggest this is the case, Domesticity Under Siege exposes a different world, one in which the boundaries of nurturing domesticity collide with both outside and inside agents.

Whether these agents are external military forces, psychological trauma or familial violence, they re-position meta-narratives of domesticity, not through identity politics or specialized subgroup experience, but relative to the actions of the world around an inhabited domain. That is, when home is constituted as a private realm, a place where individuals or groups can reside in 'safety and comfort', it is argued as a place in which the individual exercises control or power. However, there are many occasions when forces act upon the home and threaten aspects of safety and comfort, often through such things as ruination, violence, mortality, and infestation.

Organised around four thematic sections, 'Microbes, Animals and Insects', 'Human Agents', Wars and Disasters as Agents' and 'Hauntings, Eeriness and the Uncanny', chapters provide a range of approaches to the home which challenge notions of 'haven' and reflect major causes that have played an important role in undermining the modern home. Examples and case studies explore the domestic screen, hoarding, hauntings, violence and imprisonment in the home, wartime interior art, the Hanover Merzbau and Wolfgang Staudte's 1946 film Die Mörder sind unter uns ('The Murderers are Among Us').

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350166127
• Artikelnr.: 66292270

Autorenporträt

Mark Taylor is Professor of Architecture and Chair of Architectural and Industrial Design at Swinburne University, Australia. Georgina Downey is Visiting Research Fellow in Art History at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Terry Meade is Principal Lecturer of Architecture and Design at the University of Brighton, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Mark Taylor (Swinburne University
Australia)
Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide
Australia) and Terry Meade (University of Brighton
UK) SECTION ONE: Microbes
Animals and Insects 1. Miasmatical Fears
Annmarie Adams (McGill University
Canada) 2. Domesticity and Fear: Insects and Creepy Crawlies
Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology
Australia) SECTION TWO: Human Agents - Burrowing
Hoarding
Concealing
Undermining 3. The Domestic Screen
Terry Meade (University of Brighton
UK) 4. Hoarding Disorder
Schwitters' Merzbau and its Conflict with Domesticity
Judit Pusztaszeri (University of Brighton
UK) SECTION THREE: Wars and Disasters as Agents 5. Under Siege: The Wartime Home in British Art of the London Blitz
Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide
Australia) 6. Searching for (a) Home in the Rubble: The Heimkehrer-Flâneur in Wolfgang Staudte's Die Mörder sind unter uns
Kai-Uwe Werbeck (University of North Carolina
USA) SECTION FOUR: Hauntings
Eeriness and the Uncanny 7. I Have Ended up Like the House
Pretending to be Myself: Uncanny Heritage House Museums
Hannah Lewi (University of Melbourne
Australia) 8. Suburban Horror Story
James F. Kerestes (Ball State University
USA)