Literature and race in Los Angeles / Julian Murphet.
Literature and race in Los Angeles / Julian Murphet.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Date
2001.
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N809.93327/1
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English
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x, 203 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Introduction: on minoritization and domination -- 1. The representation of Los Angeles -- 2. Neo-noir and the archaeology of urban space -- 3. Postcards from sim-city -- 4. Cities within the city: Third World in the First -- 5. Realism and beyond.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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England
Date Published
2001.
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"Los Angeles is both the most fragmented and 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 homogenous visual language emanating from its entertainment industry, LA radically challenges the prospects of that archaic representationa...
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Literature and race in Los Angeles / Julian Murphet.
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Cultural margins.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-199) and index.
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N809.93327/1
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74Vvk0Rma7Xl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvk0Rma7Xl
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0521801494 (hardback)
9780521801492 (hardback)
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810.9979494
809.933279494
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991014007959702626
