Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean

yasser elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9783031840425
• eBook ISBN:
  9783031840432
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: History

Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean examines the embodied praxis of hospitality—whether through the ritual modes of religious history, the pages of literature, the visual arts, dystopian narratives of the future, or the realpolitik of shelter and asylum. It moves beyond dominant transit tropes of aporetic exchange (in the lineage of Jacques Derrida). The volume offers a fractal view of Mediterranean studies as inflected by the lived, aesthetic, and philosophical histories of hospitality.

This book brings together leading voices ranging from early-career to established scholars across the social sciences and the humanities to argue for a distinct focus on the Mediterranean pre/conditions and pre/histories of hospitality. To date, there has been no interdisciplinary intervention that takes up hospitality as a starting point to critical thinking about Mediterranean studies as an expansive, dynamic, and ever-evolving discipline. Against the inescapable backdrop of necropolitics and catastrophe, Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean offers a rich, agentive alternative for Mediterranean worldmaking.

Table of contents

• Mediterranean Perspectives
• Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• 1. Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean
• 2. Piracy, Hospitality, and the Sea in Early Modern English Drama
• 3. Pilgrims and Refugees: The “Lost Ethic” of Mediterraneity
• 4. “Come, However Briefly, In”: Ambivalent Hospitality in Ingrid de Kok’s Poetry
• 5. Enabling Hospitality as Opening in the Mediterranean: Hôtes of Constantinople and Broussa in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
• 6. Hospitable Heterotopias: Mediterranean Queer Eternity in E. M. Forster’s “Albergo Empedocle”
• 7. Can Hospitality Be Cosmopolitan?
• 8. La Traversata Infinita. Traversía Infinita. Verona: Anterem Edizioni, 2019
• 9. Let Live or Let Die: Stranger to the Nation
• 10. The “Ghost” Host or the Parody of Hospitality: A Reading of Amara Lakhous’s Clash of Civilization over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
• 11. Re-Membering Hospitality on John Fuller’s Mediterranean Terraces
• 12. De-constructing Hospitality in the Colonial Mediterranean: Lawrence Durrell’s Bitter Lemons and Albert Camus’s “L’hôte”
• 13. Hostipitality at the Mediterranean Border: Giulio Cavalli’s Carnaio
• 14. (In)hospitality in Paul Bowles’s Moroccan Travels and Fictions
• 15. “An Anomaly Between Chapters”: Hisham Matar’s A Month in Siena and the City’s Art of Hospitality
• Index1