{"title":"Welcoming the enemy within?: hospitality, autoimmunity and the blood feud in Ismail Kadare’s Broken April","authors":"Catherine Macmillan","doi":"10.1080/17521483.2021.1995313","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The protagonist of Kadare’s novel Broken April, set in the North Albanian Plateau, is required to kill his brother’s murderer according to the rules of the Kanun, a customary code of law according to which blood must be avenged, sometimes leading to generations of vendetta. In this context, the paper discusses the themes of hospitality and the blood feud in the novel, both of which play an important role in the Kanun, from the perspective of Derrida’s concepts of unconditional hospitality and autoimmunity.","PeriodicalId":42313,"journal":{"name":"Law and Humanities","volume":"15 1","pages":"279 - 299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Law and Humanities","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2021.1995313","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"LAW","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT The protagonist of Kadare’s novel Broken April, set in the North Albanian Plateau, is required to kill his brother’s murderer according to the rules of the Kanun, a customary code of law according to which blood must be avenged, sometimes leading to generations of vendetta. In this context, the paper discusses the themes of hospitality and the blood feud in the novel, both of which play an important role in the Kanun, from the perspective of Derrida’s concepts of unconditional hospitality and autoimmunity.
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Law and Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal, providing a forum for scholarly discourse within the arts and humanities around the subject of law. For this purpose, the arts and humanities disciplines are taken to include literature, history (including history of art), philosophy, theology, classics and the whole spectrum of performance and representational arts. The remit of the journal does not extend to consideration of the laws that regulate practical aspects of the arts and humanities (such as the law of intellectual property). Law and Humanities is principally concerned to engage with those aspects of human experience which are not empirically quantifiable or scientifically predictable. Each issue will carry four or five major articles of between 8,000 and 12,000 words each. The journal will also carry shorter papers (up to 4,000 words) sharing good practice in law and humanities education; reports of conferences; reviews of books, exhibitions, plays, concerts and other artistic publications.
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