Hospitalities

Transitions and Transgressions, North and South
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-55702-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 580 g

Reihe: Transdisciplinary Souths

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. The plural form of the title highlights the inter-implication of hospitality with its exclusive others, holding suspicious rejection in tension with the receptiveness that transforms socio-cultural relations. Geographically, the collection traverses the globe from Australia and Africa to Britain, Europe and the United States, weaving exchanges from south to north, as well as south to south, and thoughtfully remapping our world. Temporally, the chapters range from the primordial hospitality offered by the earth, through the Middle Ages, to contemporary detention centres and the crisis of homelessness. Thematically, hospitality embraces sites of dwelling and the land, humans and animals in their complex embodiment, spectres and the dead, dolls and art objects.This text openly welcomes the reader to participate in shaping fresh critical discourses of the hospitable, whether in literary and linguistic studies, art and architecture, philosophy or politics.

Zielgruppe

General and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Merle A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.