04246oam 2200877I 450 991079992010332120230725031353.01-136-82488-X1-283-15142-197866131514211-136-82489-80-203-83080-610.4324/9780203830802 (CKB)2670000000093627(EBL)692389(OCoLC)730151724(SSID)ssj0000521500(PQKBManifestationID)11330811(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521500(PQKBWorkID)10518181(PQKB)10125907(MiAaPQ)EBC692389(Au-PeEL)EBL692389(CaPaEBR)ebr10477501(CaONFJC)MIL315142(OCoLC)742514674(EXLCZ)99267000000009362720180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film /Ana Ma. Manzanas and Jesus BenitoNew York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (177 p.)Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;14Description based upon print version of record.1-138-84966-9 0-415-88721-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Babel.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 Augé'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 bRoutledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;14.American literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature21st centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismCities and towns in literatureSpace in literaturePlace (Philosophy) in literatureBorderlands in literatureCities and towns in motion picturesSpace in motion picturesPlace (Philosophy) in motion picturesBorderlands in motion picturesAmerican literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory 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.810.9/358209732Manzanas Calvo Ana Ma(Ana Maria),610856Benito Sanchez Jesus610855MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910799920103321Cities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film3877906UNINA