American Borders

Inclusion and Exclusion in US Culture
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-30178-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 483 g

Reihe: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

American Borders: Inclusion and Exclusion in US Culture provides an overview of American culture produced in a range of contexts, from the founding of the nation to the age of globalization and neoliberalism, in order to understand the diverse literary landscapes of the United States from a twenty-first century perspective. The authors confront American exceptionalism, discourses on freedom and democracy, and US foundational narratives by reassessing the literary canon and exploring ethnic literature, culture, and film with a focus on identity and exclusion. Their contributions envision different manifestations of conviviality and estrangement and deconstruct neoliberal slogans, analyzing hospitable inclusion in relation to national history and ideologies. By looking at representations of foreignness and conditional belonging in literature and film from different ethnic traditions, the volume fleshes out a new border dialectic that conveys the heterogeneity of American boundaries beyond the opposition inside/outside.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fernández Jiménez, Mónica

Barba Guerrero, Paula

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Globalisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction—Paula Barba Guerrero and Mónica Fernández Jiménez.2 From Hospitality to Justice: Re-inventing the Paradigm of Cosmopolitanism—Puspa Damai.3 Foreigners in their Own Land—Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan.4 E Pluribus Unum?: The Melting Pot Ideal vs Other Fictions of National Fragmentation in American Science Fiction—Ángel Mateos-Aparicio.5. Inhospitable Homelands: Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion in African American War Narratives—Patricia San José Rico.6. “Don’t Fence Me In”: Interiorized Outsides and Japanese American Concentration Camps—Ana María Manzanas Calvo.7. Strangers in the Homeland: Dystopic (in)Hospitality in McCarthy’s The Road—Jesús Benito.8. Cartographies of inclusion/exclusion and contested belongings in Raquel Cepeda’s Bird of Paradise: How I became a Latina—Luisa María González Rodríguez.9. Riding the Beast: Borders, Aliens, and Hospitality in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019) and Tell Me How It Ends (2016)—Esther Álvarez López.10. Mutual Hospitality in Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland (2020) —Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger.11. Nonsecular “Thirdspaces” in Ayad Akhtar’s American Dervish and Homeland Elegies—Muqarram Khorakiwala.- 12. Monsters or Men?: Guillermo del Toro’s allegories of American Othering in The Shape of Water—Amanda Ellen Gerke.

Über Autor(innen)

Paula Barba Guerrero is Assistant Professor of American Literature and Culture at Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. Her research interests include African American literature, space studies, memory, nostalgia, and speculative fiction.

Mónica Fernández Jiménez holds a PhD in English from the University of Valladolid, Spain, and currently works as a translator in England. Her research interests include Caribbean literature, Postcolonial Studies, American imperialism, and ecocriticism.