Literature and Race in Los Angeles |
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| Author:
| Murphet, Julian |
| Contribution by:
| Brennan, Timothy |
| Series title: | Cultural Margins Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-80149-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2001 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $79.99 |
Book Description:
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Los Angeles is both the most fragmented and minoritized metropolis in America, and its most luridly abstract and aestheticised city. With more than eighty-five languages being spoken in its classrooms, and one homogeneous visual language emanating from its entertainment industry, LA radically challenges the prospects of that archaic representational medium: literature. Literature and Race in Los Angeles is the first full-length attempt to think through some of the representational...
More DescriptionLos Angeles is both the most fragmented and minoritized metropolis in America, and its most luridly abstract and aestheticised city. With more than eighty-five languages being spoken in its classrooms, and one homogeneous visual language emanating from its entertainment industry, LA radically challenges the prospects of that archaic representational medium: literature. Literature and Race in Los Angeles is the first full-length attempt to think through some of the representational contradictions inherent in literary production in this city, and contemporary America at large.