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Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home?
- Author: Barbara Cassin
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 96
Readers on perLibre: 5
Winner, French Voices Grand Prize Nostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of a political community. In this short book, Barbara Cassin provides an eloquent and sophisticated treatment of exile and of desire for a homeland, while showing how it has been possible for many to reimagine home in terms of language rather than territory.
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