{"id":40,"date":"2014-02-09T23:04:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T03:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2014-02-09T23:04:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T03:04:38","slug":"the-unhomely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Unhomely&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of my writing and teaching gravitates toward the idea of the unhomely. I take it from Homi Bhabha and Martin Heidegger as cited in the introduction to Bhabha&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Location of Culture<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">To be unhomed is not to be homeless, nor can the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcunhomely\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 be easily accommodated in that familiar division of social life into private and public spheres. The unhomely moment creeps up on you stealthily as your own shadow and suddenly you find yourself&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0taking the measure of your dwelling in a state of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcincredulous terror.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 And it is at this point that the\u00c2\u00a0world first shrinks&#8230; and then expands enormously&#8230; The recesses of the domestic space become sites for most intricate invasions. In that displacement, the\u00c2\u00a0borders between home and world become confused:\u00c2\u00a0 and, uncannily, the private and the public become part\u00c2\u00a0of each other, forcing upon us a vision that is as divided\u00c2\u00a0as it is disorienting.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Although the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcunhomely\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is a paradigmatic colonial and post-colonial condition, it has a resonance that can be heard distinctly, if erratically, in fictions that negotiate the powers of cultural difference in a range of transhistorical sites.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of my writing and teaching gravitates toward the idea of the unhomely. I take it from Homi Bhabha and Martin Heidegger as cited in the introduction to Bhabha&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0The Location of Culture: To be unhomed is not to be homeless, nor can the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcunhomely\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 be easily accommodated in that familiar division of social life into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,23,20,15,21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonialpostcolonial","category-dwelling","category-figuration","category-literature","category-modernity","category-unhomed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}