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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149373903321

Autore

Manzanas Calvo Ana Ma (Ana Ma)

Titolo

Hospitality in American literature and culture : spaces, bodies, borders / / Ana Ma. Manzanas Calvo and Jesus Benito Sanchez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-62692-6

1-317-23648-3

1-317-23649-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 pages)

Collana

Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature ; ; 71

Altri autori (Persone)

Benito SanchezJesus

Disciplina

809.93355

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism

Hospitality in literature

Space in literature

Borderlands in literature

Hospitality - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Frear'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 Saunder's "The semplica girl diaries".