Hollow and Home: A History of Self and Place
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1943665826 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 228 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The themes of the book transcend specific localities and speak to the relationship of self and place everywhere. . Placing this literature in dialog with personal experience, he concentrates on two places that profoundly influenced him and enabled him to overcome a lifelong sense of always leaving his pasts behind. Place refers to geographical and constructed places—location, topography, landscape, and buildings. He describes in rich detail the ways the town shaped him in both enabling and disabling ways. The first is Clover Hollow in Appalachian Virginia, where the author lived for ten years among fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-generation residents. The story then turns to Carlisle’s life growing up in Delaware, Ohio. It proposes that place is a complex and dynamic phenomenon. The people and places there enabled him to value his own past and primary places in a new way. Hollow and Home explores the ways the primary places in our lives shape the individuals we become. These elements act in concert to constitute a place. In the end, after years of moving from place to place, Carlisle’s experience i
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