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Category Archives: Nation

Belonging, Domesticity, Nation, Place, Trauma

Haunting and Healing in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

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All tales of haunting are about belonging. What belongs, what is unwanted, what keeps coming back.

And ghosts, by nature, reveal something other – a trace of history hidden or submerged.

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Belonging, Creative-Writing, Landscape, Nation, Place & Space

The Places of Poetry Project

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…And how This Land Was Made For You And Me

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Music, Nation

National Anthems in Film: The Sound of Music – Eidelweiss

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Eidelweiss isn’t actually the national anthem for Austria. I’m telling you so that you know that I know. I KNOW!

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Domesticity, Music, Nation, Place & Space

National Anthems in Film: Poltergeist

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An 80’s horror perspective of America

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Love, Nation

National Anthems in Film: Casablanca

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A close-up look at one of my most favourite scenes ever in film history.

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What is home to you? What does it mean? Is it a place, person a thought or a thing? Is it acquired through journeys? Through language? Bricks and mortar? What is its relationship with notions of identity and nationality? I explore these questions in literature, film, art and music, from Jean Rhys to Joni Mitchell and from Foucault to Eastenders

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