Hospitalities (eBook, PDF)

Transitions and Transgressions, North and South
Redaktion: Williams, Merle A.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of imaginative essays traces notions of hospitality across a sequence of theoretical permutations, not only as an urgent challenge for our conflicted present, but also as foundational for ethics and resonant within the play of language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000336887
• Artikelnr.: 60723943

Autorenporträt

Merle A. Williams is Professor Emerita of English at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a research associate of the African Centre for the Study of the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors 1. Hospitalities: transitions and transgressions,
north and south 2. Welcoming and pluralism in the romances of Chrétien,
Wolfram and Gottfried 3. Guests, hosts, ghosts: towards an ethics of gothic
writing 4. 'A wandering to find home': Samuel Beckett's Molloy and the
unhomeliness of home 5. Defying closure: hospitality, colonialism and
mobility beyond the limits of the nation in Sol Plaatje's Mhudi 6. Home is
where the heart is: a creative and theoretical reflection 7. Hélène Cixous'
mourning of loss and the loss of mourning: from Algerian apprehensions to
Hyperdream - and beyond 8. Inhospitable life: security and migrancy in
Atticus Lish's Preparation for the Next Life 9. Being a guest: from uneasy
tourism to welcoming dogs in Marie Ndiaye's Ladivine 10. Indigenous
hospitality: Kim Scott's fiction, multinaturalism and absolute conditional
hospitality 11. 'Yes to who or what arrives': hospitality and property in
contemporary art Index