Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives

PART I: Home on an individual scale and the philosophy of learning to dwell

Chapter 2: Heidegger and "dwelling"

Chapter 3: The labyrinthine home in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves

Chapter 4: Homecoming in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

PART II: Home on an interpersonal scale and the economics of mobility

Chapter 5: Bauman and "liquid modernity"

Chapter 6: "Roots" and stability in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village

Chapter 7: "Routes" and mobility in Nicolas Dickner's Nikolski

PART III: Home on a social scale and the politics of (hostile) hospitality

Chapter 8: Derrida and "hostipitality"

Chapter 9: Welcome as house arrest in Lars von Trier's Dogville

Chapter 10: "Home safe" in spite of hostility in Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin!

PART IV: Home on a global scale and the relevance of cosmopolitanism

Chapter 11: Appiah and cosmopolitan "contamination"

Chapter 13: Global "at homeness" in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and the Wachowskis/Tykwer film

14. Conclusion