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Hospitality in American Literature and Culture - Spaces, Bodies, Borders (Hardcover)
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Hospitality in American Literature and Culture - Spaces, Bodies, Borders (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
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This volume examines hospitality in American immigrant literature
and culture, situating this ancient virtue at the crossroads of
space and border theory, and exploring the relationship among the
intersecting themes of migration, citizenship, identity formation,
and spatiality. Assessing the conditions, duration, and shifting
roles of hosts and guests in the United States, the book
concentrates on the ways the US administers protocols of belonging
and non-belonging, and distinguishes between those who can feel at
home from those who will always be outside the body politic, even
if they were the original "hosts." The volume opens with a
genealogy of hospitality through a focus on its sites, from its
origins in the Bible, to its national and post-national renditions
in contemporary American literature and culture. The authors
explore recent representations of immigrant spatiality, from the
space of the body in Spielberg's The Terminal and Frears's Dirty
Pretty Things, to the different ways in which immigrants are
incorporated into the United States in Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer,
Karen T. Yamashita's I Hotel, Junot Diaz's "Invierno," and Ernesto
Quinonez's Chango's Fire, concluding with the spectrality of the
immigrant body in George Saunders' "The Semplica Girl Diaries."
Timely and imperative in light of the legacies of colonialism, and
the realities of modern-day globalization, this book will be of
value to specialists in post-colonialism; American Studies;
immigration, diaspora, and border studies; and critical race and
gender studies for its innovative approaches to media and literary
texts.
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