Cloth: 978-1-80655-109-5 | Paper: 978-1-80655-110-1
This book analyzes narratives of hospitality (and inhospitality) through recent crises like climate change and mass displacement.
Current historical and political issues, such as the refugee crisis and climate emergency, are deeply intertwined with notions, images, and narratives of (in)hospitality. Departing from seminal works, such as those by Kant and Derrida, on this topic, the chapters in this volume examine how new postcolonial, gender, environmental, and medical perspectives reshape current approaches to hospitality in literature, culture, and the arts.
Through a comparison of case studies in multiple national settings, Hosts, Hospitals and Hospitalities shows how the concept of hospitality shapes the way in which we relate with “the Other” in diverse—and ever-evolving—cultural, political, social, and environmental contexts. By examining the issue of hospitality from a post-pandemic standpoint, which revised the roles of our private and public spaces in the aftermath of COVID-19, by dwelling on novel issues of climate emergency, and by focusing on current developments in terms of migration and displacement, this book adds new light and significant theoretical and methodological perspectives to previous debates about hospitality.
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