House and residential
While such approaches have been important for problematizing hegemonic mobilizations of “home”, there is also a danger in reading motion as constitutive of the (publish)modern world. In specific, such frameworks often overlook the experiences of those who are forcibly displaced. Critical investment in tropes of migrancy may unwittingly recycle imperialist assumptions by producing imagined spaces of alterity that serve to liberate the centred, “at house” topic on the expense of historicized experiences of homelessness. Abdulrazak Gurnahs 2001 novel By the Sea represents one such historicized experience, that of its protagonist, asylum seeker Saleh Omar. This article argues that, by way of its narrative funding in houses and household objects and in the significance of narrative for creating a sense of home for its migrant protagonist, Gurnahs novel poses a problem to an aesthetic valorization of displacement.
Photographs complementing the models present how Americans used concepts from these famous buildings to … Read More
