Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives by Aleksandra Bida

Author:Aleksandra Bida
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783319979670
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

2Dickner has said that the idea for the novel stemmed from the patterned migrations of sperm whales in Moby-Dick and from anecdotal stories of running into friends while halfway across the world as though participating in such whale-like patterns (“Nicolas Dickner reveals”).

3Additionally, the “vagrant wearing a Maple Leafs hockey tuque” (77) is sporting the logo of a Toronto team in Montreal, which makes his defining attribute more noticeable for being so distinctly out of place.

4The stroller figure that Bauman describes is closely related to the flâneur, a figure theorized by Walter Benjamin and taken up by Anne Friedberg in a consumerist context when she proposes the shopping mall as “a site for flanerie and for a mobilized gaze instrumentalized by consumer culture” (12). Consuming home spaces and objects need not suggest any engagement with or commitment to the idea of home, both of which the passerby exhibits as a more active home-maker.

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