How is the idea of home unmade in an age of real estate crises, housing discrimination, and ever increasing inequality? This talk, presented by Julia Faisst, Assistant Professor of American Studies from the Catholic University of Eichstaett and the 2018 Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor at Notre Dame, investigates how selected examples of twenty-first century U.S. literature and photography negotiate fragile habitats divided by class and race. It hones in on the most precarious kinds of belonging, as we find them in millennial homelessness and other forms of contemporary un-housing.
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Originally published at germanandrussian.nd.edu.