“How much deception awaited for me outside the boundaries of our home”: Affective geographies of dwelling at Ancient Tillage, by Raduan Nassar
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-0892.geousp.2019.144704Keywords:
Geography and Literature, Place, Being-in-the-world, Corporeality, GeographicityAbstract
Romance originally published in 1975, “Ancient Tillage” narrates the story of the departure and return of the middle son of a peasant family. At the flux of conscience plot, André, the protagonist, describes his experiences, perceptions and conditions of dwelling at the place-tillage’s hearth. Spatialities of tension are emerged by the means of the family order, which is divided by the diverging forms of conceiving the affective geographies of home. This essay problematizes, per the hermeneutics based on Merleau-Ponty’s existentialist phenomenology, in which way irradiates the contradictions of dwelling at the geographicity of André’s experience. It’s evidenced that the body-spatial dynamics gives birth to a way of dwelling place in which the emergence of being-in-the-world is profoundly concerned by emotions and perceptions. At the potentiality of being-at-home, the place is contextually redefined by the tensions that modifies how the geographical reality is felt. It is concluded that by the inherently corporeality of the subject-place intertwining intensifies the affective flux by which human beings projects their intentional conscience into the world.
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