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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

About the Author

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.