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BlogHotels in Literature“This Miserable Closet of a Room”: Confining Queerness in James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room”
06/02/2026

“This Miserable Closet of a Room”: Confining Queerness in James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room”

By Elena Diasiti James Baldwin was a prolific novelist, essayist and political spokesperson who, through his works, sought to forge a place for the condition…
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BlogHotels in Literature“Passing” Through the Racial Hotel: Transgressive Performance in Nella Larsen’s “Passing” (1929)
05/09/2025

“Passing” Through the Racial Hotel: Transgressive Performance in Nella Larsen’s “Passing” (1929)

By Theano Manou In the early-to-mid 20th century, hotels in America operated either under Jim Crow laws of segregation or, in some states, through “customs”…
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BlogHotels in Literature“I’m not queer, I’m disembodied”: Hotel and Desire in William S. Burroughs’ “Queer”
10/07/2025

“I’m not queer, I’m disembodied”: Hotel and Desire in William S. Burroughs’ “Queer”

By Sevasti Evangelisti-Louta The Beat Generation occupies a distinct and transitional period in American literature. Timothy S. Murphy (1998) describes William Burroughs by coining the…
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BlogHotels in LiteratureThe Dissolution of Social Barriers in the Hotel of E.M. Forster’s “Where Angels Fear to Tread”
27/05/2025

The Dissolution of Social Barriers in the Hotel of E.M. Forster’s “Where Angels Fear to Tread”

By Dimitra Karydi After lunch Harriet would get out Baedeker, and read in injured tones about Monteriano, the Mons Rianus of Antiquity, till her mother…
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