On Ghostpitality in Derrida and Some Contemporary American Fiction

Activity: Talk or presentationOral presentation

Description

Host/hostage, guest/ghost, stranger/foreigner, and/or friend? What/how do I call you? Who are you? The one who gives, who receives, (who sneaks in), the one who is turned away? This paper introduces the session "Derrida's hôte," which discusses Derrida’s work on the aporias and thresholds of hospitality, of houses and nations, through fiction, film, language, and philosophy.
Period2013
Event titleDerrida's hôte. Hospitalities: Biopolitics, Technologies, Humanities, International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) 2013 Conference
Event typeSeminar
LocationSingapore, SingaporeShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Jacques Derrida
  • Hospitality
  • American Literature