Of homes and the 'unhomely' : Michael Cunningham’s Specimen days

Pramod K. Nayar

Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Dept. of English, Univ. of Hyderabad, India. His recent publications include Digital Cool: Life in the Age of New Media (Orient BlackSwan 2012), Colonial Voices: The Discourses of Empire (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), Writing Wrongs: The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India (Routledge 2012), among others. His work has appeared in Journal of British Studies, Postcolonial Text, Commonwealth: Essays and Studies, Studies in Travel Writing, Prose Studies, South Asian Review, Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Notes on Contemporary Literature, College Literature, Kunapipi, Ariel, Journal of Commonwealth Literature and elsewhere. Forthcoming is a book on Frantz Fanon for the Routledge Critical Thinkers series and a book on posthumanism for Polity. He is also interested in superhero comics. Email: pramodknayar@gmail.com