Ian Almond, "World Literature Decentered: Beyond the 'West' Through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal" (Routledge, 2021)
New Books in World Affairs
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Hotel Narratives - The Relationship Between Death and the Hotel
Hotels have this kind of association with iniquity and transgression, right? You know, you have your extra marital affairs or your prostitutes. So i was really intrigued by the way something like a hotel narrative can e offer sort of four or five ways of looking at a subject. All these o very different hotel narratives, but they all involve e kind of death. There's some sort of like relationship between death and the hotel in literature. Am, the hotel, the det the death in the hotel, would be a kind of conservative sub text. It would be a mechanism by which you, you punish your characters for transgressing.
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