American Borders

lt;p>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.

Introduction: Beyond Borders. Inclusion and Exclusion in American Culture.- Isamu: Becoming Nisei.- Part I. Perpetuating Otherness. Relocation to the Outside Within.- "Don't Fence Me In": Interiorized Outsides and Japanese American Concentration Camps.- The Resonance of the Hostage Crisis in Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America (2004) and the Limits of Hospitality.- Cartographies of Inclusion/Exclusion and Contested Belongings in Raquel Cepeda's Bird of Paradise: How I Became a Latina.- Part II. Beyond Sovereign Frames: Contesting Imaginaries and National Myths.- Foreigners in their Own Land: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Creation of Tolerated Strangers.- E Pluribus Unum?: Disintegrating the Melting Pot Myth in American Science Fiction Narratives of National Fragmentation.- Inhospitable Homelands: Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion in African American War Narratives.- Monsters or Men?: Guillermo del Toro's Allegories of American Othering in The Shape of Water.- Part III. Welcoming the Stranger Inside?: Exclusive Inclusion in the Age of Neoliberalism.- Strangers in the Homeland: Dystopic (in)Hospitality in McCarthy's The Road.- Riding the Beast: Of Borders, Aliens, and Hospitality in Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive (2019) and Tell Me How It Ends (2017).- Grief, Hospitality, and the Frontier in Chloé Zhao's Nomadland (2020).- Nonsecular Thirdspaces in Ayad Akhtar's American Dervish and Homeland Elegies.- The Ugly Guy (Novel Excerpt).

"The edited volume American Borders: Inclusion and Exclusion in US Culture offers a comprehensive redefinition of the concept of border in the context of the current era of globalization. ... The volume provides a valuable resource for academics and students interested in the representation and current understanding of borders in literature and cinema that impeccably completes the existing literature on the subject." (Martina Permanyer Rodríguez, nexus, aedean.org, Issue 1, 2024)