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Author:   Merle A. Williams (School of Literature, Language and Media, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9780367631833

ISBN 10:   0367631830
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   24 December 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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'The current geopolitical situation, with its growing crises of immigration and the widespread displacement and upheaval of entire populations, makes this project powerfully topical and urgent. Hospitalities will be an indispensable volume for students and scholars of philosophy, literature, literary theory, history, sociopolitical theory, and aesthetic theory.' - Sheila Teahan, Michigan State University 'The north-south and south-south take of the collection is an innovative and important angle which helps develop notions of hospitality. Not only does it add to the plurality of hospitalities in a new and radical way that should inform all forms of hospitality, but it also opens up a dialogue between different notions of hospitality by productively challenging ontological generalisations.' - Cordula Lemke, Free University of Berlin

Author Information

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.

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