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Autore |
Manzanas Calvo Ana Ma (Ana Maria) |
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Titolo |
Cities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film / / Ana Ma. Manzanas and Jesus Benito |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-82488-X |
1-283-15142-1 |
9786613151421 |
1-136-82489-8 |
0-203-83080-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (177 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; ; 14 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism |
American literature - 21st century - History and criticism |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Cities and towns in literature |
Space in literature |
Place (Philosophy) in literature |
Borderlands in literature |
Cities and towns in motion pictures |
Space in motion pictures |
Place (Philosophy) in motion pictures |
Borderlands in motion pictures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : lingering on Times Square -- Chiastic spaces: ports of entry, ports of exit -- The migrational city in Chuck Palahniuk's "Slumming" : a story by lady baglady, and Helena Viramontes's "The Cariboo Cafe" -- Unbound cities, concentric circles : Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange -- Borderlands : middle spaces, hybrid bodies -- The rhetoric of spatial cutting : borders, scars, open wounds -- Terminal thinking : border narratives, airport narratives, and the logic of detention -- Postscript conclusion : from The Great Wall to |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Thus book examines the spatial morphologies represented in a wide range of contemporary ethnic American literary and cinematic works. Drawing from Henri Lefebvre's theorization of space as a living organism, Edward Soja's writings on the postmetropolis, Marc AugeĢ's notion of the non-place, Manuel Castells' space of flows, and Michel de Certeau's theories of walking as a practice, the volume extends previous theorizations by examining how spatial uses, appropriations, strictures, ruptures, and reconfigurations function in literary texts and films that represent inhabitants of racial-ethnic b |
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