American Borders

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).