Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture

<p>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.</p>