Topographies et scénographies de l’étrangeté et de l’hospitalité dans le théâtre et le cinéma grecs au tournant du xxe siècle

Jacques Derrida notes that “there can be no culture or social bond without a principle of hospitality”. But in the very definition of hospitality, strangeness is always a fundamental condition. There is no hospitality unless a stranger knocks on our door and asks to enter our home, whether immigrant...

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Main Author: Georges P. Pefanis
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Language:English
Published: Centre d'Études Balkaniques 2024-10-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ceb/21537
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description Jacques Derrida notes that “there can be no culture or social bond without a principle of hospitality”. But in the very definition of hospitality, strangeness is always a fundamental condition. There is no hospitality unless a stranger knocks on our door and asks to enter our home, whether immigrant or refugee – in any case: someone other than ourselves. But who is the stranger, and from whom? How the “becoming a stranger” is activated, through me or through the way I am seen by others? At this crossroads of the self as other (as Paul Ricœur would say) and the other as self, everything depends on where we place the rule of (national, religious, social, cultural) normality, in our own world or in the world of the other. The boundary that unites and separates the two worlds is the regime of hospitality.
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Topographies et scénographies de l’étrangeté et de l’hospitalité dans le théâtre et le cinéma grecs au tournant du xxe siècle
Cahiers Balkaniques
cinema
theatre
immigration
strangeness
hospitality
title Topographies et scénographies de l’étrangeté et de l’hospitalité dans le théâtre et le cinéma grecs au tournant du xxe siècle
title_full Topographies et scénographies de l’étrangeté et de l’hospitalité dans le théâtre et le cinéma grecs au tournant du xxe siècle
title_fullStr Topographies et scénographies de l’étrangeté et de l’hospitalité dans le théâtre et le cinéma grecs au tournant du xxe siècle
title_full_unstemmed Topographies et scénographies de l’étrangeté et de l’hospitalité dans le théâtre et le cinéma grecs au tournant du xxe siècle
title_short Topographies et scénographies de l’étrangeté et de l’hospitalité dans le théâtre et le cinéma grecs au tournant du xxe siècle
title_sort topographies et scenographies de l etrangete et de l hospitalite dans le theatre et le cinema grecs au tournant du xxe siecle
topic cinema
theatre
immigration
strangeness
hospitality
url https://journals.openedition.org/ceb/21537
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