Abstract
The article looks at the contradictory dynamics at work in the representation of a “homecoming” in Alice Munro’s story “Home.” It discusses the protagonist’s changed relation to place and landscape as she returns to her former home as an adult. The house she lived in as a child has been renovated and is almost entirely transformed now. Her reflections suggest loss and nostalgia; it is however a nostalgia of a reflective kind which does not pretend to rebuild the mythical place called home; it does not indulge in loss. Instead it is ironic, inconclusive and fragmentary.
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