- Title
- The time of hospitality in Samuel Beckett's Murphy, Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and Damon Galgut's The Good Doctor:
- Creator
- Marais, Mike
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144106
- Identifier
- vital:38312
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2015.1083193
- Description
- In this article, I focus on the temporal dimension of the differential process through which community constitutes itself. If community is premised on the sameness that is enabled by that which it excludes, and sees as a threat, then it must seek always to conserve itself and to render the future – which is hazardous in its uncertainty – calculable, predictable and determinable. In its search for stability and permanence, community must dominate time in such a way that it is overcome, that it withdraws from itself. Arguably, though, we would view time less teleologically and programmatically, if we could relate differently to the difference on which community depends. A form of hospitality that is predicated on an acceptance of otherness – not only that of a community's outsiders, but also the ‘common strangeness’ of its insiders – would alter the ways in which being-in-common is conceived, and would also change our experience of belonging.
- Format
- 11 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- English Studies in Africa, Marais, M., 2015. The Time of Hospitality in Samuel Beckett's Murphy, Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and Damon Galgut's The Good Doctor. English Studies in Africa, 58(2), pp.15-25., English Studies in Africa volume 58 number 2 15 25 October 2015 1943-8117
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