The Paradox of Hospitality in Sharon Bala’s The Boat People
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Universidad de La Laguna
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- Lourdes López Ropero (coord.)
- Sara Prieto García-Cañedo (coord.)
- José Antonio Sánchez Fajardo (coord.)
Editorial: Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'Alacant
ISBN: 978-84-1302-079-2
Ano de publicación: 2020
Páxinas: 69-77
Congreso: Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. Congreso (43. 2020. Valencia)
Tipo: Achega congreso
Resumo
Hospitality is a paradox. Often defined as the act of being friendly and welcoming to guests or strangers, the very notion also marks the existence of a threshold between oneself and the other, the host and the guest, the national and the foreign. In the past two decades, there has been significant research that looks at how these issues are addressed and negotiated in Canadian literature. However, further critical work is needed that articulates the relationships that take place at the hospitality threshold and probes the potential of Canadian literature to engage with both the contradictory and the utopian dimensions of hospitality. This paper will examine Sharon Bala’s The Boat People (2018) within that complex context.