[SFRA-L] Home/Homeland and SF

[Keren Omry]

Dear Hive Mind,

I am teaching a course on *home *and SF.

Here I'm thinking of questions of the relationship between Home and:

* language/culture
* nation/land
* family/society
* power: post/colonial, gender
* technology: travel, communication, information, surveillance
* homelessness
* terrorism
* im/migration
* economy

etc.

and how our understanding of *Home *and its role in SF (which so often
dramatizes the tension between alienation-familiarity that I expect is one
of the defining features of *Home*)  has changed in recent decades in
lights of dramatic shifts in some of the above.

I've got a handful of longer texts in mind but desperately need some short
stories to fill in the gaps.

Any thoughts would be very helpful!

Cheers,

Keren
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