Hospitalities : transitions and transgressions, North and South / edited by Merle A. Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Merle A., editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Transdisciplinary Souths

Transdisciplinary souths

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospitality--History.

Hospitality.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 209 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

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.

Contents:

1 Hospitalities: transitions and transgressions, north and south p. 1 / Merle A. Williams and Russell West-Pavlov

2 Welcoming and pluralism in the romances of Chrétien, Wolfram and Gottfried p. 23 / Donald R. Wehrs

3 Guests, hosts, ghosts: towards an ethics of gothic writing p. 41 / Dale Townshend

4 'A wandering to find home': Samuel Beckett's Molloy and the unhomeliness of home p. 59 / Mike Marais

5 Defying closure: hospitality, colonialism and mobility beyond the limits of the nation in Sol Plaatje's Mhudi p. 75 / Rebecca Fasselt

6 Home is where the heart is: a creative and theoretical reflection p. 95 / Jane Taylor

7 Hélène Cixous's mourning of loss and the loss of mourning: from Algerian apprehensions to Hyperdream - and beyond p. 108 / Merle A. Williams

8 Inhospitable life: security and migrancy in Atticus Lish's Preparation for the Next Life p. 126 / David Watson

9 Being a guest: from uneasy tourism to welcoming dogs in Marie NDiaye's Ladivine p. 143 / Judith Still

10 Indigenous hospitality: Kim Scott's fiction, multinaturalism and absolute conditional hospitality p. 163 / Russell West-Pavlov

11 'Yes to who or what arrives': hospitality and property in contemporary art p. 184 / Anthea Buys.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 04, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Hospitalities

ISBN:

9781003112433

1003112439

9781000336955

1000336956

9781000336887

1000336883

9781000337020

1000337022

Publisher Number:

40030337200

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.