Homecoming - Definition and Overview

Homecoming has several meanings, including:

• A homecoming game and/or dance is, at many American and Canadian universities and high schools, the first and most important such event.

• Homecoming is also the name of a New York Times #1 bestselling book by John Bradshaw that deals with the wounded inner child theory. It was also turned into a six-hour television series of the same name on the PBS network in the United States.

• Homecoming is also the name of the breakthrough album by folk-rockers America.

• Homecoming is also the name of a 1994 album by the jazz trio Gateway.

• Homecoming (in German: Heimkehr) is also the name of a Nazi antisemitic German/Austrian propaganda film of 1941 with Austrian actors Attila Hoerbiger and Paula Wessely

• There are two science fiction works called Homecoming: a novel by Frederik Pohl from 1990 and a pentalogy by Orson Scott Card published between 1992 and 1995.

• Also, Harold Pinter wrote a play The Homecoming.