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The Poetics and Politics of Hospitality in U.S. Literature and Culture explores hospitality in literature, language and cinema from a variety of methodological perspectives that illustrate the richness of American hospitality.
About the author
Amanda Ellen Gerke is Assistant Professor at the University of Salamanca. She has published articles on values transmitted through written texts, the reciprocal relationship between language and its users, developments in concepts of 'linguistic space', sociolinguistic approaches to code-switching in written and spoken texts, and cognitive and semiotic theory.
Patricia San José Rico, Ph.D. (2013), University of Valladolid, Spain, is Assistant Professor there. She has published mainly on Trauma and African American literature, including
Creating Memory and Cultural Identity in African American Trauma Fiction (Brill 2019).
Santiago Rodríguez Guerrero-Strachan is Senior Lecturer at the University of Valladolid. He has published extensively on the relations between Spanish and American literatures and on the short story. His research interests include American literature of the Romantic and Modernist periods.
