ABSTRACT
With contributions from an international array of scholars, this volume opens a dialogue between discourses of security and hospitality in modern and contemporary literature and culture. The chapters in the volume span domestic spaces and detention camps, the experience of migration and the phenomena of tourism, interpersonal exchanges and cross-cultural interventions. The volume explores the multifarious ways in which subjects, citizens, communities, and states negotiate the mutual, and potentially exclusive, desires to secure themselves and offer hospitality to others. From the individual’s telephone and data, to the threshold of the family home, to the borders of the nation, sites of securitization confound hospitality’s injunction to openness, gifting, and refuge. In demonstrating an interrelation between ongoing discussions of hospitality and the intensifying attention to security, the book engages with a range of literary, cultural, and geopolitical contexts, drawing on work from other disciplines, including philosophy, political science, and sociology. Further, it defines a new interdisciplinary area of inquiry that resonates with current academic interests in world literature, transnationalism, and cosmopolitanism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|33 pages
Modern Homes
part II|27 pages
Sexual Difference
part III|29 pages
Opting Out
part IV|31 pages
Vulnerability
chapter 8|16 pages
Securing the Nation, Settling Selves
chapter 9|14 pages
Reading Unreadable Lives
part V|31 pages
Conflicted Communities
chapter 10|16 pages
“This Is Our Splintered City”
part VI|33 pages
National Security
part VII|33 pages
Openness
part VIII|33 pages
Terror