Hospitality in American Literature and Culture

This book examines hospitality in American immigrant literature and culture, situating it at the crossroads of space and border theory, and exploring themes of migration, citizenship, identity formation, and spatiality. Assessing the conditions, duration, and shifting roles of hosts and guests in the US, it visits recent representations of immig

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Ana María Manzanas Calvo is Associate Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Salamanca, Spain.

Jesús Benito Sánchez is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Valladolid, Spain.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Hospitality Revisted

1 Re-Placing Hospitality: (In)hospitable Sites in American Literature

2 Embodying Hospitality: Biopolitics and Capitalist Flows in Steven Spielberg's The Terminal and Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things

3 Cannibalistic Hospitality: Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer

4 "We the People of the International Hotel" and the Hotel State: Karen T. Yamashita's I Hotel

5 Between Hospitality and Hostility: Junot Díaz's "Invierno"

6 Between Hosts and Guests: Ernesto Quiñonez's Chango's Fire and Mastery over Place

7 Guest/Ghost Object in the Garden: George Saunders's "The Semplica Girl Diaries"

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