Harlan Professor Susan (Wake Forest University Usa) - Luggage - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Object Lessons is a series of short beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. You can t think about travel without thinking about luggage. And baggage has baggage. Susan Harlan takes readers on a journey with the suitcases that support accessorize and accompany our lives. Along the way she shows how the materials of travel the carry - ons totes trunks and train cases of the past and present have stories to tell about displacement home gender class consumption and labor. Luggage considers bags as carefully curated microcosms of our domestic and professional selves charting the evolution of travel across literature film and art. A simple suitcase it turns out contains more than you might think. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Title: Luggage
Author(s): Harlan Professor Susan (Wake Forest University Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781501329296
Pages: 160 Pages, 7 B/W Illustrations
Publication Date: 3/8/2018
Series: Object Lessons
Category: Material Culture