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The World and The Home

  • Homi K. Bhabha (author)
Chapter of: Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds(pp. 361–376)

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TitleThe World and The Home
ContributorHomi K. Bhabha (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0131.1.18
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/extraterritorialities-in-occupied-worlds/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightBhabha, Homi K.
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2016-02-16
Long abstractIn the House of Fiction you can hear, today, the deep stirring of the “unhome-ly.” You must permit me this awkward word — the unhome-ly — because it captures something of the estranging sense of the relocation of the home and the world in an unhallowed place. To be unhomed is not to be homeless, nor can the “unhomely” be easily accommodated in that familiar division of social life into private and the public spheres. The unhomely moment creeps up on you stealthily as your own shadow and suddenly you find yourself with Henry James’s Isabel Archer “taking the measure of your dwelling” in a state of “incredulous terror.”1 And it is at this point that the world first shrinks for Isabel and then expands enormously. As she struggles to survive the fathom-less waters, the rushing torrents, James introduces us to the “unhomeliness” inherent in that rite of “extra-territorial” initiation — the relations between the innocent American, the deep, dissembling European, the masked emi-gré — that a generation of critics have named his “international theme.” In a feverish stillness, the intimate recesses of the domestic space become sites for history’s most intricate invasions. In that displacement the border be- tween home and world becomes confused; and, uncannily, the private and the public become part of each other, forcing upon us a vision that is as di-vided as it is disorienting.
Page rangepp. 361–376
Print length16 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Homi K. Bhabha

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