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Overview"Despite its cozy image, the bungalow in literature and film is haunted by violence even while fostering possibilities for personal transformation, utopian social vision and even comedy. Originating in Bengal and adapted as housing for colonialist ventures worldwide, the homes were sold in mail-order kits during the ""bungalow mania"" of the early 20th century and enjoyed a revival at century's end. The bungalow as fictional setting stages ongoing contradictions of modernity--home and homelessness, property and dispossession, self and other--prompting a rethinking of our images of house and home. Drawing on the work of writers, architects and film directors, including Katherine Mansfield, E. M. Forster, Amitav Ghosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Willa Cather, Buster Keaton and Walter Mosley, this study offers new readings of the transcultural bungalow." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mary Lou EmeryPublisher: McFarland & Co Inc Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.331kg ISBN: 9781476680255ISBN 10: 1476680256 Pages: 258 Publication Date: 15 July 2020 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: More Than One Story Part One: Bungalow Empire Prologue—“At the Bay”: Katherine Mansfield’s Bungalow Colony 1. From Seaside to Suburb: Bungalow Phobia in H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster and Rebecca West 2. Colonial Frontiers: Mutable Bungalows in E.M. Forster, George Orwell and Amitav Ghosh Part Two: Bungalow America Prologue—“The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”: John Lennon’s Bungalow Hunt 3. On the Veranda: Plantation Labor and Design in Frank Lloyd Wright and William Faulkner 4. Bungalow Uncanny: Stranger Selves in Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mildred Wirt Benson (Carolyn Keene) and Willa Cather Part Three: California Dreams Prologue—“In a California Bungalow”: Charles Warren Stoddard’s Bungalow Holiday 5. Playing House: Buster Keaton in Bungalow Land 6. From Bungalow Noir to Open House: The Multicultural Southland in James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Sue Grafton and Walter Mosley Conclusion: Restorations Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsThe argument ranges from colonial British India to 21st century Oregon, across texts as seemingly disparate as Forster's Howards End, Ghosh's The Glass Palace, Cain's Double Indemnity, and Keaton's One Week, and does so with a keen eye for textual detail and pattern...A timely addition to a growing field. -Mary Wilson, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth The author adds to conversations about the 'spatial turn' in literary studies, especially modernist studies.... The historical background and movement of the bungalow from the Indian colonies to the US is also fascinating, and provides a rich invitation to think about modern US housing forms in a global context. -Ria Banerjee, Guttman Community College, CUNY. The argument ranges from colonial British India to 21st century Oregon, across texts as seemingly disparate as Forster's Howards End, Ghosh's The Glass Palace, Cain's Double Indemnity, and Keaton's One Week, and does so with a keen eye for textual detail and pattern...A timely addition to a growing field. -Mary Wilson, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth The author adds to conversations about the 'spatial turn' in literary studies, especially modernist studies.... The historical background and movement of the bungalow from the Indian colonies to the US is also fascinating, and provides a rich invitation to think about modern US housing forms in a global context. -Ria Banerjee, Guttman Community College, CUNY The argument ranges from colonial British India to 21st century Oregon, across texts as seemingly disparate as Forster's Howards End, Ghosh's The Glass Palace, Cain's Double Indemnity, and Keaton's One Week, and does so with a keen eye for textual detail and pattern.... A timely addition to a growing field. --Mary Wilson, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; The author adds to conversations about the 'spatial turn' in literary studies, especially modernist studies.... The historical background and movement of the bungalow from the Indian colonies to the US is also fascinating, and provides a rich invitation to think about modern US housing forms in a global context. --Ria Banerjee, Guttman Community College, CUNY. Author InformationMary Lou Emery is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Iowa. Author of two previous books, plus critical essays and book chapters in British, Caribbean, and transnational modernism, she lives in Portland, Oregon. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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