Postcolonial Hospitality

The Immigrant as Guest

Bibliographic Data

ID5339743
AuthorsDayna Oscherwitz (corresponding author), Mireille Rosello (corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume33
Issue2
Pages161-165
Publication date2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Reviewed byPostcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest, Dayna Oscherwitz, 2004
VenueSubStance (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/sub.2004.0027
OpenAlexW4241517077
Open LibraryOL37387184M
ISBN9780804780254
LanguageEN
Citations received30

In recent years, hospitality has emerged as a category in French thinking for addressing a range of issues associated with immigration and other types of journeys. Rosello's book concentrates primarily on France and its former colonies in North and sub-Saharan Africa and considers how hospitality and its dissidence are defined, practiced, and represented in European and African fictions, theories, and myths at the end of the twentieth century. Postcolonial Hospitality explores the ways in which Western superpowers rewrite ideals of hospitality that are borrowed from a variety of sources and that sometimes constitute an incompatible system of values. Each chapter focuses on a problematic moment when hospitality is read either as excessive or lacking: when the host does not give what is ideally expected; when the guest is mistreated rather than protected; when the guest abuses the host rather than being grateful. In considering these issues, the author examines the relationship between ownership and generosity, focusing specifically on the connections among nationalism, immigration, and hospitality. Because the intersections between cultural differences and issues of gender often expose the fragility or arbitrariness of hospitable conventions, the author studies novels, films, and immigrant interviews that explore those moments of crisis when systems of hospitality clash

Archaeology · Hospitality · Immigration · Linguistics · Metaphor · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tourism · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature · Political and Social Issues · 325/.1 · Entertaining - general & miscellaneous · Etiquette · Europe · France · Immigrants · Immigration & emigration - france · Jv7925 .r67 2001 · Postcolonialism · Social history - general & miscellaneous

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