‘환대’로서의 사랑: 토니 모리슨의 『사랑』과 시적 환대의 (불)가능성
Love as ‘Hospitality’: Toni Morrison’s Love and the Im/possibility of Poetic Hospitality
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In Toni Morrison’s Love, love resembles ‘hospitality’ that Jacques Derrida has elaborated in several works of his writing, in its deconstructive movement where it reaches to the limit of its meaning, or to the opposite conception such as hate. This study attempts to read Love as a literary response to whether it is or is not possible for Derrida’s “poetic hospitality” to occur in the relationship of “I” and the other. The acts of hospitality are present all over the novel where Bill Cosey’s hotel occupies lives of the main characters as well as its major scenes. The hotel offers its guests “the best good time this side of the law,” which immediately refers to the Jim Crow laws and further implies the conditional laws of hospitality to which Derrida oppose the law of hospitality, that is unconditional, pure hospitality. Cosey’s pedophilic relationship with his second wife Heed represents the perversion and pervertibility of this law of hospitality. On the other hand, Cosey’s granddaughter Christine stands close to unconditional hospitality when she shares her belongings with Heed without asking her name, which verifies the identity of its holder. There is no longer hospitality when these two girls become deeply hostile towards each other, immediately after Heed’s marriage to Cosey. It is when Christine faces the unexpected death of Heed that they are summoned to be hospitable to each other and to Junior who, as a stranger as such, the absolutely other, is responsible for Heed’s death. Lastly, it is Romen, Junior’s sex partner, who embodies the subject hospitable to the other, the self who divides or interrupts himself or herself by making a decision for and by the other.
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In Toni Morrison’s Love, love resembles ‘hospitality’ that Jacques Derrida has elaborated in several works of his writing, in its deconstructive movement where it reaches to the limit of its meaning, or to the opposite conception such as hate. This study attempts to read Love as a literary response to whether it is or is not possible for Derrida’s “poetic hospitality” to occur in the relationship of “I” and the other. The acts of hospitality are present all over the novel where Bill Cosey’s hotel occupies lives of the main characters as well as its major scenes. The hotel offers its guests “the best good time this side of the law,” which immediately refers to the Jim Crow laws and further implies the conditional laws of hospitality to which Derrida oppose the law of hospitality, that is unconditional, pure hospitality. Cosey’s pedophilic relationship with his second wife Heed represents the perversion and pervertibility of this law of hospitality. On the other hand, Cosey’s granddaughter Christine stands close to unconditional hospitality when she shares her belongings with Heed without asking her name, which verifies the identity of its holder. There is no longer hospitality when these two girls become deeply hostile towards each other, immediately after Heed’s marriage to Cosey. It is when Christine faces the unexpected death of Heed that they are summoned to be hospitable to each other and to Junior who, as a stranger as such, the absolutely other, is responsible for Heed’s death. Lastly, it is Romen, Junior’s sex partner, who embodies the subject hospitable to the other, the self who divides or interrupts himself or herself by making a decision for and by the other.
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