Hospitalities: Transitions and Transgressions, North and South

ISBN-13: 9780367557027 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 210 str.

Merle A. Williams

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.