Burning Down The House

1. Recycling: Long Routes to and from Domestic Fixes Part One: On the Road: Nations, Empires, Texts, Homes 2. Why Daughters Die: The Racial Logic of American Sentimentalism 3. Homes in the Empire, Empires in the Home 4. Modernism and Domesticity: From Conrad's Eastern Road to Stein's Empty Spaces in the Home 5. Homo-Economics: Queer Sexualities in a Transnational Frame Part Two: Domesticity: Redrawing Urban Space 6. Reconstructed Identity: Spatial Change and Adaptation in a Greek-Macedonian Refugee Neighborhood Counterparts: Dubliners, Masculinity, and Temperance Nationalism 7. Repetition and Unhousing in Nawal El-Saadawi 8. Fast Capital, Race, Modernity, and the Monster House Part Three: Nostalgia, Modernity, and Other Domestic Fictions 9. Dishing Up Dixie: Recycling the Old South in the Early-Twentieth-Century Domestic Ideal 10. Domestic Renovations: The Marriage Plot, the Lodging House, and Lesbian Desire in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces 11. "Homesick for Those Memories": The Gendering of Historical Memory in Women's Narratives of the Vietnam War 12. Domesticity and the Demon Mother: A Review Essay of Sorts Part Four: Bringing Down the House: Dreaming, Revising, Burning 13. Feminists Are Modern; Families Are Indian: Women's Magazines and the Politics of Modernity 14. In a Neighborhood of Another Colar: Latina/Latino Struggles for Home 15. Home, Houses, Nonidentity: Paris Is Burning 16. The Squat, the Tearoom, the Urn, and the Designer Bathroom: Citing Home in Ken Loach' s Riff Raff