Overview
- Transcends old fashioned categories in favour of non-hegemonic identities
- Explores discourses on citizenship and hospitality to offer an original analysis of imagined communities
- Looks at how contemporary discourses mobilized to both include and exclude within American society have been developed
Part of the book series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century (ALTC)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Perpetuating Otherness: Relocation to the Outside Within
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Beyond Sovereign Frames: Contesting Imaginaries and National Myths
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Welcoming the Stranger Inside?: Exclusive Inclusion in the Age of Neoliberalism
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: American Borders
Book Subtitle: Inclusion and Exclusion in US Culture
Editors: Paula Barba Guerrero, Mónica Fernández Jiménez
Series Title: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30179-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30178-0Published: 16 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30181-0Due: 15 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30179-7Published: 15 November 2023
Series ISSN: 2634-579X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5803
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 264
Topics: North American Literature, American Culture, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Globalization, Migration