This book examines hospitality in American immigrant literature and culture, situating it at the crossroads of space and border theory, and exploring themes of

The Poetics and Politics of Hospitality in U.S. Literature and Culture explores hospitality in a range of cultural expressions from a variety of approaches. The

Occupying Space in American Literature and Culture inscribes itself within the spatial turn that permeates the ways we look at literary and cultural productions

This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.

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