Hospitalities Transitions And Transgressions North And South | Asian Studies

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. The plural form of the title highlights the inter-implication of hospitality with its exclusive others holding suspicious rejection in tension with the receptiveness that transforms socio-cultural relations. Geographically the collection traverses the globe from Australia and Africa to Britain Europe and the United States weaving exchanges from south to north as well as south to south and thoughtfully remapping our world. Temporally the chapters range from the primordial hospitality offered by the earth through the Middle Ages to contemporary detention centres and the crisis of homelessness. Thematically hospitality embraces sites of dwelling and the land humans and animals in their complex embodiment spectres and the dead dolls and art objects. This text openly welcomes the reader to participate in shaping fresh critical discourses of the hospitable whether in literary and linguistic studies art and architecture philosophy or politics. |Hospitalities Transitions and Transgressions North and South | Asian Studies