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Titel
Junot Díaz’s “Otravida, Otravez” and Hospitalia: The Workings of Hostile Hospitality
Autor(es)
Schlagwort
Literature
Díaz, Junot
Hospitalidad
Hospital
Migración
Hospitality
Fecha de publicación
2013-01-15
Verlag
Indiana University (Bloomington, Estados Unidos)
Citación
Manzanas Calvo, A.M.A (2013). Junot Díaz’s “Otravida, Otravez” and Hospitalia: The Workings of Hostile Hospitality. Journal of Modern Literature, 37 (1), pp. 107-123
Resumen
[EN]The language of hospitality and its intimate opposite, hostility, reverberates insistently
in the current political climate, as countries worry about fortifying their borders against
waves of migration. This framework has paved the way for the language of hospitality
to return as an apt lens for anatomizing current encounters with the Other. This article
argues that the hospitality at the heart of Junot Díaz’s story “Otravida, Otravez” (2012)
is one that has turned against itself in a manner reminiscent of Derrida’s concept of
“hostipitality.” I analyze the two locations of this hostile hospitality in the story, the hospital
and the house, arguing that the hospital is its true locus and represents the guarded
health of the American Dream.
URI
ISSN
0022-281X
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