The Poetics and Politics of Hospitality in U.S. Literature and Culture

Abstract

America has its purpose: it must serve that purpose to the end: I look upon the future as certain: our people will in the end read all these lessons right: America will stand opposed to everything which means restriction-stand against all policies of exclusion: accept Irish, Chinese-knowing it must not question the logic of its hospitality. [. . .] Our conditions, ideals, causes, all point one way: that way cannot but be the way of freedom.