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.
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