(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). 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 in Barcelona (Catalonia, 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 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