The International Hotel as a Heterotopic Site and a Non-Place in the San Francisco Novel I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
Michel Foucault notices that “heterotopias always presuppose a system of opening and closing that both isolates and makes them penetrable, […] [they are] not freely accessible like a public place,”(Foucault 26) but the “individual has to submit to certain rites” and their inhabitants feel “shelte...
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Bucharest University Press
2016-06-01
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| Series: | University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/SoniaCaputa.pdf |