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Publicada em alemão no ano de 2000, a coletânea "Post Bellum" de Dragica Rajčić trata das memórias da guerra nos Bálcãs e do princípio de alteridade experimentado pela voz lírica. Este artigo tem por objetivo discutir três poemas dessa coletânea: "suisse like home", "Hunderste gedicht ohne trenen" e "Ein Haus, nirgends". Com foco na figuração da casa, o artigo inicia com uma discussão teórica do conceito de casa e passa a discutir os poemas e as imagens da casa, com interesse, sobretudo, na questão do pertencimento.
The question of home is a complicated one. While home is emplaced, the notion of home does not simply point to just a location. This chapter thus utilizes what I call the trope of the 'vignette' to look at the concept of home in order to identify some aspects of what constitutes and/or (re)creates it for displaced individuals. It does so by performing a close reading of key moments in the film "Salt of this Sea" by Annemarie Jacir and the collection of essays "The Idea of Home" by John Hughes.
Homestead exemptions to personal bankruptcy allow households to retain their home equity up to a limit determined at the state level. Households that may experience bankruptcy thus have an incentive to bias their portfolios towards home equity. Using US household data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation for the period 1996-2006, we find that especially households with low net worth maintain a larger share of their wealth as home equity if a larger homestead exemption applies. This home equity bias is also more pronounced if the household head is in poor health, increasing the chance of bankruptcy on account of unpaid medical bills. The bias is further stronger for households with mortgage finance, shorter house tenures, and younger household heads, which taken together reflect households that face more financial uncertainty.