Marie NDiaye by Shirley Jordan

Marie NDiaye by Shirley Jordan

At stake throughout the fictional writings of Marie NDiaye (1967-) is the issue of the stranger's welcome. NDiaye's fascination with a spectrum of outsider figures and with the multiple, often subtle practices which create and sustain social groups as bounded entities, gives rise to detailed and disquieting portrayals not of hospitality but of the mechanisms and rituals of repulsion.

Engaging with critical theory on hospitality across the disciplines, Shirley Jordan's closely argued analysis of NDiaye's novels, theatre and short stories probes the tropes of inhospitality around which the writer's work coalesces, exploring the ethical significance of a corpus in which communities, environments and spaces are persistently tainted by unwelcoming. NDiaye is seen to elaborate a fantastic anthropology: one which, through sustained attentiveness to non-observance of the rules of hospitality, provides a focus for debate about belonging in a postcolonial world.

Shirley Jordan is Professor of French Studies at Newcastle University.

Jordan, Shirley: - Shirley Jordan is the youngest of seven children. She is a mother of four, three boys and one girl; and a grandmother to five. She was born and raised in Houston, Texas and always puts her family first. Shirley is truly an entrepreneur, owning and operating a haircutting salon for children to close to ten years. She absolutely adores children. Shirley loves writing children's books because, she says, Children don't judge whether or not the pictures are good. Shirley has no enemies and everyone falls in love with her smile. Her smile reflects her true heart and natural beauty. She loves to make people laugh, believing that laughter is good for the heart and it helps to release stress.

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ISBN 13	9781781883815
ISBN 10	1781883815
Title	Marie NDiaye
Author	Shirley Jordan
Series	Research Monographs In French Studies
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Legenda
Year published	2019-04-15
Number of pages	142
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