Imaginative Geographies of Home: Ambivalent Mobility in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture

Authors

  • Dorothee Birke University of Innsbruck
  • Stella Butter University of Koblenz-Landau

Keywords:

Home, mobility, literature, film, graphic narrative, photography

Abstract

Introduction to the special issue "Imaginative Geographies of Home"

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2019-12-20

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