Ana María Manzanas is Associate Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Salamanca, Spain.Jesús Benito is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Valladolid, Spain.

• Selected Contents: Introduction: Lingering on Times Square 1: Chiastic Spaces: Ports of Entry, Ports of Exit 2: The Migrational City in Chuck Palahniuk’s "Slumming: A Story by Lady Baglady" and Helena Viramontes’s "The Cariboo Café" 3: Unbound Cities, Concentric Circles: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange 4: Borderlands: Middle Spaces, Hybrid Bodies 5: The Rhetoric of Spatial Cutting: Borders, Scars, Open Wounds 6: Terminal Thinking: Border Narratives, Airport Narratives, and the Logic of Detention 7: Conclusion: From the Great Wall to Babel

Ana María Manzanas is Associate Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Salamanca, Spain.Jesús Benito is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Valladolid, Spain.

• Selected Contents: Introduction: Lingering on Times Square 1: Chiastic Spaces: Ports of Entry, Ports of Exit 2: The Migrational City in Chuck Palahniuk’s "Slumming: A Story by Lady Baglady" and Helena Viramontes’s "The Cariboo Café" 3: Unbound Cities, Concentric Circles: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange 4: Borderlands: Middle Spaces, Hybrid Bodies 5: The Rhetoric of Spatial Cutting: Borders, Scars, Open Wounds 6: Terminal Thinking: Border Narratives, Airport Narratives, and the Logic of Detention 7: Conclusion: From the Great Wall to Babel

Ana María Manzanas is Associate Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Salamanca, Spain.Jesús Benito is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Valladolid, Spain.

• Selected Contents: Introduction: Lingering on Times Square 1: Chiastic Spaces: Ports of Entry, Ports of Exit 2: The Migrational City in Chuck Palahniuk’s "Slumming: A Story by Lady Baglady" and Helena Viramontes’s "The Cariboo Café" 3: Unbound Cities, Concentric Circles: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange 4: Borderlands: Middle Spaces, Hybrid Bodies 5: The Rhetoric of Spatial Cutting: Borders, Scars, Open Wounds 6: Terminal Thinking: Border Narratives, Airport Narratives, and the Logic of Detention 7: Conclusion: From the Great Wall to Babel