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    Home Space, Feminine Subjectivity, and Unhousing in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.
    (2020-06) Amira BELKHEIR
    The study of space was for a long time considered irrelevant to literary analysis. Nevertheless, in the Contemporary period, the relationship between Home Space, Women, and Domesticity has been the source of much critical debate in literary criticism. This thesis, therefore, aims to examine the ways in which occupied spaces define concepts of domesticity, housekeeping, feminine subjectivity, and unhousing in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping (1980). Additionally, it explores on the one side ‘housekeeping concepts’ such as home, houses, and domesticity, and on the other side ‘unhousing’s concepts’ like transience, homelessness, and border crossing. It also examines how female characters construct their identities and subjectivity through the different spaces they occupy. Such an examination leads the way to a deeper understanding of the two models of female subjectivity Robinson offers in her novel: One is the settled, domestic female who makes sense of her oneness through the inside occupied social space of a house, and the other is the vagrant and transient female constructing an identity by crossing the borders towards an open and natural space. To achieve this, the research is carried out by relying on important concepts of Space Theories and Feminism.