Hostess : Hospitality, Femininity, and the Expropriation of Identity.
In The Hostess, Tracy McNulty asks, What are the implications for personhood of sharing a person--a wife or daughter--as an act of hospitality? Combining critical readings of the Bible and Pierre Klossowski's trilogy The Laws of Hospitality, the writings of Kant and Nietzsche, and the work of F...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University of Minnesota Press,
2006
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In The Hostess, Tracy McNulty asks, What are the implications for personhood of sharing a person--a wife or daughter--as an act of hospitality? Combining critical readings of the Bible and Pierre Klossowski's trilogy The Laws of Hospitality, the writings of Kant and Nietzsche, and the work of Freud and Lacan, she contends hospitality involves the boundary between the proper and the improper. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780816698127 0816698120 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
