Literature and Race in Los Angeles
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- Author: Julian Murphet, University of Oxford
- Date Published: March 2001
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521805353
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This book analyzes contemporary literature in Los Angeles in relation to the city's form, its visual character and its recent political history. Writers such as Bret Easton Ellis and James Ellroy are considered as responding to racial and ethnic partitioning in LA, as well as to increasing cultural homogeneity. Unlike other books on contemporary American literature, this book builds a composite portrait of a single literary scene in order to demonstrate the significance of writing in a tendentially post-literate culture, and the difficulties of literary representation in a city committed to visual representation.
Read more- Deals with contemporary writers in Los Angeles
- Builds up a portrait of a single literary scene
- Argues for the relevance of literature in an increasingly visual world
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"Murphet writes in the coded words and phrases of a scholar addressing his fellow scholars, but more often he is capable of showing us new and provocative ways to look at our city, ourselves and the writers who have tried to capture us in print." Los Angeles Times
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- Date Published: March 2001
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521805353
- length: 214 pages
- dimensions: 217 x 140 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.26kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The representation of Los Angeles
2. Neo-noir and the archaeology of urban space
3. Postcards from sin-city
4. Cities within the city: Third world in the First
5. Realism and beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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