Literature and Race in Los Angeles
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- Author: Julian Murphet, University of Oxford
- Date Published: April 2001
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521805353
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Los Angeles is both the most fragmented and the most minoritized metropolis in America, and its most luridly abstract and aestheticized 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. In its investigation of the work of Bret Easton Ellis, James Ellroy, Anna Deveare Smith and others, Literature and Race in Los Angeles articulates their aesthetic preoccupations with the structures of social space in the city. Harnessing some of the theoretical insights of Henri Lefebvre and the 'LA school' of geographers, Murphet demonstrates the versatility of literary production in LA and speculates about the fortunes of literature in a predominantly visual culture.
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 brilliantly peels away the hype to expose the racial inferno of Los Angeles history.' Mike Davis
See more reviews'This is a gripping, compulsive book. In its reading of the literary readings of Los Angeles offered by thriller writers, poets, and performance artists, Murphet makes a decisive contribution to the body of work that […] we have started to think of as LA studies. The book itself is commandingly written, each sentence deeply-pondered and finely tuned.' Stephen Connor
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- Date Published: April 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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