Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-241) and index.
Contents:
Bungalow Empire. Prologue: "At the Bay": Katherine Mansfield's Bungalow Colony -- From Seaside to Suburb: Bungalow Phobia in H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster and Rebecca West -- Colonial Frontiers: Mutable Bungalows in E.M. Forster, George Orwell and Amitav Ghosh -- Bungalow America. Prologue: The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill": John Lennon's Bungalow Hunt -- On the Veranda: Plantation Labor and Design in Frank Lloyd Wright and William Faulkner -- Bungalow Uncanny: Stranger Selves in Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mildred Wirt Benson (Carolyn Keene) and Willa Cather -- California Dreams. Prologue: "In a California Bungalow": Charles Warren Stoddard's Bungalow Holiday -- Playing House: Buster Keaton in Bungalow Land -- From Bungalow Noir to Open House: The Multicultural Southland in James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Sue Grafton and Walter Mosley -- Conclusions: restorations.
Summary:
""Despite its cozy image, the bungalow in literature and film is haunted by violence yet fosters possibilities for personal transformation, utopian social vision and even comedy. Originating in Bengal and adapted as housing for colonialist ventures worldwide, the homes were sold in mail-order kits during the "bungalow mania" of the early 20th century and enjoyed a revival at century's end. The bungalow as fictional setting stages ongoing contradictions of modernity-home and homelessness, property and dispossession, self and other-prompting a rethinking of our images of house and home. Drawing on the work of writers, architects and film directors, including Katherine Mansfield, E. M. Forster, Amitav Ghosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Willa Cather, Buster Keaton and Walter Mosley, this study offers new readings of the transcultural bungalow."-Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.
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