Lindsay Anne Balfour

Hospitality in a Time of Terror

Strangers at the Gate

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Strangers at the Gate promises, for the first time, to examine culture since 9/11 from the perspective of hospitality. It asks new questions about how we engage with others and strangers and claims hospitality as an imperative political concern as well as a social, cultural, and ethical one.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9781611488487
• ISBN-10: 1611488486
• Artikelnr.: 48924060

Autorenporträt

Lindsay Anne Balfour is visiting scholar at the New York University September 11 Memorial and Museum.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hospitality in a Time of Terror
Chapter 1: Guests and Ghosts: Spectrality and Hospitality in the September
11 Memorial and
Museum
Chapter 2: Surprised by Hospitality: Violence and Intimacy in Kathryn
Bigelow's Zero Dark
Thirty
Chapter 3: Taking Hospitality to the Street: Mobile Ethics and the Event of
Urban Art
Chapter 4: Organic Shrapnel: Hospitality, Incorporation, and Infirmity in
Don DeLillo's Falling Man
Conclusion: Hospitality and The Gates
Bibliography
Index
About the Author