Each chapter focuses on a problematic moment when hospitality is read either as excessive or lacking: when the host does not give what is ideally expected; when the guest is mistreated rather than protected; when the guest abuses the host rather than being grateful. In considering these issues, the author examines the relationship between ownership and generosity, focusing specifically on the connections among nationalism, immigration, and hospitality. Because the intersections between cultural differences and issues of gender often expose the fragility or arbitrariness of hospitable conventions, the author studies novels, films, and immigrant interviews that explore those moments of crisis when systems of hospitality clash.
Each chapter focuses on a problematic moment when hospitality is read either as excessive or lacking: when the host does not give what is ideally expected; when the guest is mistreated rather than protected; when the guest abuses the host rather than being grateful. In considering these issues, the author examines the relationship between ownership and generosity, focusing specifically on the connections among nationalism, immigration, and hospitality. Because the intersections between cultural differences and issues of gender often expose the fragility or arbitrariness of hospitable conventions, the author studies novels, films, and immigrant interviews that explore those moments of crisis when systems of hospitality clash.
Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest
224Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest
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ISBN-13: | 9780804742320 |
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Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
Publication date: | 12/01/2002 |
Series: | Cultural Memory in the Present Ser. |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 224 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d) |
Lexile: | 1480L (what's this?) |