Hospitality and Postcoloniality
27 Outubro 2016, 10:00 • Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo
Hospitality in Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
-Presentation I by Elena Cordero
-The text as Parable (the Kafkian intertext) and its different "homes"
-The Question of Entitlement: "Whose Home?" as a colonial and postcolonial problem
- Definitions and Inversions: "Friend/Enemy"; "Civilized/Barbarian"; "Guest/Host"
-The Body as a Hospitable/ Inhospitable Space:
1. The Gendered body and the Land
2. The Sacrificial body of the Narrator and the Text