Ana Maria Manzanas Calvo, Jesús Benito Sanchez

Hospitality in American Literature and Culture

Spaces, Bodies, Borders

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 immigrant spatiality, from the space of the body in film to the ways in which immigrants are incorporated into the US in a range of literary examples. Timely and imperative in light of the legacies of colonialism, and the realities of modern-day globalization, this book will be of value to fields including post-colonialism, American Studies, and others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138647688
• ISBN-10: 1138647683
• Artikelnr.: 48066183

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
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"
Notes
Bibliography
Index