CONDITIONS OF HOSPITALITY IN FLANNERY O’CONNOR’S “THE DISPLACED PERSON”
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https://doi.org/10.21814/diacritica.5167Keywords:
O’Connor, refugees, integration, rejection, law, conventionAbstract
“Thee displaced person” (1954), a short story by the North-American writer Flannery O’Connor, explores the refugee’s issue as it triggers conflict zones that unmask both intercultural and social wounds. Besides the political decisions, there is the difficult task of conciliating diverging wills. All this favours the turning of the refugee into a homo sacer: his rights are not acknowledged; he is taken as labour force, bound for exploitation. "us, hospitality becomes a crossing of different sorts of dangers, which is a privileged topos of this short story. "e present essay dwells on Flannery O’Connor’s views about the refugee’s condition and the scope of the issue as implied in “The displaced person”.
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