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I consider the ways in which conceptions of welcome and exchange impact the role of home through the “domestication” of not only goods and media but also practices and ideas. I focus on the social or societal scale of home and open with von Trier’s Dogville (2003), a film that depicts the dire consequences of a rigid social conception of home through delineations of who may or may not attempt to claim it—delineations largely based on social norms that demand sizable investments of money or seemingly arbitrary investments of time.
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Nikolaj Lubecker claims that Grace “is not a simple victim” (159, original emphasis) because she had a choice of calling her father for aid, but this logic only applies to her initial stay when she was mobile and disregards the fact that she believed that her father would not react kindly to finding her after their last confrontation and would likely punish or possibly kill her.
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Bida, A. (2018). Welcome as House Arrest in Lars von Trier’s Dogville. In: Mapping Home in Contemporary Narratives. Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97967-0_9
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