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

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).

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Integrating Western and Decolonial Approaches to HospitalityMaria Antònia Oliver-Rotger and Pere Gifra-Adroher Part I: Immigration, Hospitality, and State ViolenceChapter 1. (In)Hospitality in Tornillo, Texas: Unaccompanied Minors, Art, and ResilienceMaría-Socorro Tabuenca CórdobaChapter 2. Convivial Solidarities versus Border Necropolitics in Francisco Cantú’s The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the BorderEsther Álvarez-LópezChapter 3. Penelope's House and the Immigration Courts on a ‘Hostipitalitarian’ BorderRocío Irene MejíaChapter 4. Power and Visibility: The Unfinished Story of The InfiltratorsAlex RiveraPart II: Narratives of (In)HospitalityChapter 5. Chicane Hospitality, Nepantilism, and a Sentipensante Approach to the US-Mexico BorderlandsNorma E. CantúChapter 6. “Aquí te falta,” “Aquí te sobra:” (In)Hospitality in Ramón “Tianguis” Pérez’s Diary of an Undocumented ImmigrantMarta E. SánchezChapter 7. Photographing Dreams: Cinema against the Reality of US HospitalityJuan G. EtxeberriaChapter 8. Metafiction in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper: In and Out of a Blurred Text of HospitalityFrancisco A. LomelíPart III: Translation as HospitalityChapter 9. Translation as Bienvenida: The Digital Threshold of The Codex Nepantla ProjectAlicia Gaspar de AlbaChapter 10. Linguistic and Narrative Hospitality in the Translation of Daisy Hernández’s ‘Before Love, Memory’Mattea CusselPostscriptBearing Witness: Inhospitable Encounters with The Politics of Rage, Hate, and GrievanceNorma AlarcónIndex