Apology of Immigrant Literature: Toward a Planetary Hospitality?

This paper suggests the possibility of making use of the narrative of migration as the object of study of a comparatist discipline that takes into account Armando Gnisci’s considerations on hospitality, as well as Gayatri Spivak’s on planetarity and comparative literature. In this sense, the paper a...

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Main Author: Meiss, Paula
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Asociación Cultural 452ºF; Universitat de Barcelona 2010-01-01
Series:452ºF
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description This paper suggests the possibility of making use of the narrative of migration as the object of study of a comparatist discipline that takes into account Armando Gnisci’s considerations on hospitality, as well as Gayatri Spivak’s on planetarity and comparative literature. In this sense, the paper aims at suggesting a possible line of research en comparative literature that needs not rely on the concept of national literature to be developed. The analysis of the narrative of migration, through a series of variables well recognised in travel literature, allows both in form and contents a comparatism of the encounter.
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spelling doaj.art-61356e0ec7bf4450ac6beda4a3c37d2b2022-12-22T03:31:55ZcatAsociación Cultural 452ºF; Universitat de Barcelona452ºF2013-32942010-01-0121329Apology of Immigrant Literature: Toward a Planetary Hospitality?Meiss, PaulaThis paper suggests the possibility of making use of the narrative of migration as the object of study of a comparatist discipline that takes into account Armando Gnisci’s considerations on hospitality, as well as Gayatri Spivak’s on planetarity and comparative literature. In this sense, the paper aims at suggesting a possible line of research en comparative literature that needs not rely on the concept of national literature to be developed. The analysis of the narrative of migration, through a series of variables well recognised in travel literature, allows both in form and contents a comparatism of the encounter.http://www.452f.com/pdf/numero02/02_452F_mono_meiss_indiv.pdfTravelMigrationComparative literatureGnisciSpivakWeltliteratur
spellingShingle Meiss, Paula
Apology of Immigrant Literature: Toward a Planetary Hospitality?
452ºF
Travel
Migration
Comparative literature
Gnisci
Spivak
Weltliteratur
title Apology of Immigrant Literature: Toward a Planetary Hospitality?
title_full Apology of Immigrant Literature: Toward a Planetary Hospitality?
title_fullStr Apology of Immigrant Literature: Toward a Planetary Hospitality?
title_full_unstemmed Apology of Immigrant Literature: Toward a Planetary Hospitality?
title_short Apology of Immigrant Literature: Toward a Planetary Hospitality?
title_sort apology of immigrant literature toward a planetary hospitality
topic Travel
Migration
Comparative literature
Gnisci
Spivak
Weltliteratur
url http://www.452f.com/pdf/numero02/02_452F_mono_meiss_indiv.pdf
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