(In)Hospitable Encounters in Chicanx and Latinx Literature, Culture, and Thought

Author:   Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger ,  Pere Gifra-Adroher
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   254
Publication Date:   17 October 2024
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Author:   Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger ,  Pere Gifra-Adroher
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9781032733500


ISBN 10:   1032733500
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   17 October 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
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List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Integrating Western and Decolonial Approaches to Hospitality Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger and Pere Gifra-Adroher Defining (In)hospitable Encounters Immigration, Hospitality, and State Violence Critical Tropes of (In)Hospitality in Chicanx and Latinx Cultural Studies Translation as Hospitality Part I: Immigration, Hospitality, and State Violence Chapter 1. (In)Hospitality in Tornillo, Texas: Unaccompanied Minors, Art, and Resilience María-Socorro Tabuenca-Córdoba Chapter 2. Convivial Solidarities versus Border Necropolitics in Francisco Cantú’s The Line Becomes a River. Dispatches from the Border Esther Álvarez-López Chapter 3. Penelope's House and the Immigration Courts on a ‘Hostipitalitarian’ Border Rocío Irene Mejía Chapter 4. Power and Visibility: The Unfinished Story of The Infiltrators Alex Rivera Part II: Narratives of (In)Hospitality Chapter 5. Hospitality, Nepantilism, and a Sentipensante Approach to the US-Mexico Borderlands Norma E. Cantú Chapter 6. “Aquí te falta,” “Aquí te sobra:” (In)Hospitality in Ramón “Tianguis” Pérez’s Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant Marta E. Sánchez Chapter 7. Photographing Dreams: Cinema against the Reality of US Hospitality Juan G. Etxeberria Chapter 8. Metafiction in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper: In and Out of a Blurred Text of Hospitality Francisco A. Lomelí Part III: Translation as Hospitality Chapter 9. Translation as Bienvenida: The Digital Threshold of The Codex Nepantla Project Alicia Gaspar de Alba Chapter 10. Linguistic and Narrative Hospitality in the Translation of Daisy Hernández’s ‘Before Love, Memory’ Mattea Cussel Postscript Bearing Witness: Inhospitable Encounters with The Politics of Rage, Hate, and Grievance Norma Alarcón Index

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Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger is Associate Professor at the Humanities Department of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). Her most recent research focuses on the testimonial, documentary, and auto-ethnographic aspects of Chicanx and Latinx literature. She is the author of Battlegrounds and Crossroads: Social and Imaginary Space in Writings by Chicanas (2003). She is also the editor of Diaspora and Return in American Literature (Routledge, 2015) and of a special issue devoted to ""Rethinking Hospitality through the Culture, Literature, and Thought of Contemporary US Women of Color"" for Lectora: Revista de dones i textualitat (2023). She has published essays in journals such as Melus, Aztlán, Signs, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Journal of American Studies, and in edited volumes published by Routledge, Brill, and Palgrave Macmillan. Pere Gifra-Adroher is Associate Professor of English at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). His research focuses on nineteenth-century American literature, Anglophone travel writing on Spain, and cross-cultural relations between the Iberian Peninsula and the English-speaking world. He is the author of Between History and Romance: Travel Writing on Spain in the Early Nineteenth-Century United States (2000) and editor of a special issue on “American Travel Writing on Spain” for the Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna (2019). He has also co-edited, with Montserrat Cots and Glyn Hambrook, Interrogating Gazes: Comparative Critical Views on the Representation of Foreignness and Otherness (2013), and, with Jacqueline Hurtley, Hannah Lynch and Spain (2018).

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