Hospitality in a time of terror : strangers at the gate / Lindsay Anne Balfour.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balfour, Lindsay Anne, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social interaction.

Hospitality.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in mass media.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in mass media.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature.

Psychic trauma and mass media.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

xxviii, 147 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Lewisburg, PA] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]

Summary:

Hospitality in a Time of Terror: Strangers at the Gate offers a reading of hospitality that suggests that an encounter with strangers is at the core of cultural production and culture itself in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It documents the significance of hospitality after the terrorist attacks, particularly as such an ethic is so provocatively raised or disavowed by a predominantly visual and cultural archive that has been and continues to be consumed by millions of people around the world. This book utilizes works of cultural memory, film, art, and literature that show the breadth of hospitality's influence as well as the depth of insight, historical specificity, and theoretical intensity that only a product created in the aftermath of 9/11 allows. The September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City, for example, is best understood as an institution defined by the question of hospitality, particularly as it is engaged or disavowed through an experience with loss. The book also considers how hospitality might function in consideration of the violence perpetuated against bodies marked by discourses of race, gender, and sexuality, as is the case in the 2011 film Zero Dark Thirty, and separately explores how alternative modes of hospitality are enabled by the fluid and dynamic space of the street and the urban art found there. The final chapter examines Don DeLillo's 2007 novel Falling Man and argues that the novel demonstrates a sustained engagement with hospitality through the figure of organic shrapnel, a metaphor that suggests the possibility of being literally and figuratively embedded in another. The purpose of this book is to point out the diverse and even devastating ways hospitality appears by reminding us that, if hospitality as we understand it is failing, it matters more than ever how we deploy it. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Hospitality in a time of terror

Guests and ghosts: spectrality and hospitality in the September 11 Memorial and Museum

Surprised by hospitality: violence and intimacy in Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty

Taking hospitality to the street: mobile ethics and the event of urban art

Organic shrapnel: hospitality, incorporation, and infirmity in Don DeLillo's falling man

Conclusion: Hospitality and the gates.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Balfour, Lindsay Anne, 1981 author. Hospitality in a time of terror

ISBN:

9781611488487

1611488486

OCLC:

1004206587