RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 “I Was in No Mood for People Who Tried to Lay Claims on Me”: Community, Hospitality, and Friendship in Teju Cole’s Open City
A1 Akçay, Fatma
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB This article examines community, friendship, and hospitality in Teju Cole’s novel Open City, drawing on Nancy’s The Inoperative Community, Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community, and Derrida’s The Politics of Friendship and Of Hospitality. I aim to show how the representation of migratory experiences in this novel revolves around the contrast between operative communities based on immanence, fusion, and essentialist concepts such as race and ethnicity, and inoperative and elective communities characterized by openness and exposure to alterity. I examine how friendship and hospitality prove to be the necessary force in the novel to transform New York and Brussels into truly “open cities” hospitable to people of different races.
SN 2531-1654
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73449
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73449
LA eng
NO ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies; No. 45 (2024) pags. 170-191
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-ene-2025