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Literature and Race in Los Angeles

Literature and Race in Los Angeles

Murphet, Julian

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Series: Cultural Margins, Book 8

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 052180535X
ISBN13: 9780521805353
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Mar 19 2001
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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