Derridean Hospitalities: Hugo’s Les Misérables and Camus’s L’Hôte
Law and Literature, 2026 (AHCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.1080/1535685x.2026.2709988
- Dergi Adı: Law and Literature
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, EBSCO Legal Collection, EBSCO Legal Source, HeinOnline-Law Journal Library, Humanities Abstracts, Index to Legal Periodicals, Index to legal periodicals & books, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Political Science Complete, Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, MLA International Bibliography, Political Science Abstract (IPSA), Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO), Humanities Source Ultimate (EBSCO), Law Journal Library (HeinOnline), Legal Collection (EBSCO), Legal Source (EBSCO)
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Albert Camus, deconstruction, hospitality, Jacques Derrida, justice, responsibility, Victor Hugo
- Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
This essay reads hospitality in Derrida as an aporia and examines how this aporia is staged in Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables and Camus’s L’Hôte. By framing hospitality as both an ethical imperative and a site of structural contradiction, the study explores how Derrida’s concept of hospitality animates two contrasting but interconnected literary instances: the bishop’s seemingly unconditional welcome of the ex-convict Valjean and the schoolmaster Daru’s ambivalent reception of an Arab prisoner in a colonial context. By showing how these two hosts navigate the aporetic tension between the conditional and the unconditional, the paper highlights hospitality as a profoundly ethical act.