Ghostpitality: American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2019 Annual Meeting

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"What will have been ghostpitality"

Beginning with Jacques Derrida’s declaration, “I would say there is no politics […] without an open hospitality to the guest as ghost” (Aporias 61), this paper is an attempt to think the politics of this ghostpitality. If, as Derrida points out in Aporias, the French word hôte means both host and guest, ghostpitality names the return of the hôte as hôte, as something that will have been hôte, no longer and not yet host and/or guest. What will have been ghostpitality, therefore? When will it have been? This paper’s pressing concern is with the time and timeliness of the politics of ghostpitality, particularly as it relates to Derrida’s concept of the democracy to come.

Period	2019
Event type	Seminar
Location	Washington, United States, District of ColumbiaShow on map