Hospitality in American Literature and Culture : Spaces, Bodies, Borders / Ana Ma Manzanas Calvo and Jesús Benito Sánchez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calvo, Ana Maria M. Manzanas.

Benito Sánchez, Jesús, author.

Series:

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 71.

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospitality in literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

x, 201 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2016.

Contents:

Introduction: Hospitality Revisited

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

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

Cannibalistic Hospitality: Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer

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

Between Hospitality and Hostility: Junot Diaz's 'Invierno'

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

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1138647683

9781138647688

OCLC:

941876179