LEADER 04246oam 2200877I 450 001 9910799920103321 005 20230725031353.0 010 $a1-136-82488-X 010 $a1-283-15142-1 010 $a9786613151421 010 $a1-136-82489-8 010 $a0-203-83080-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203830802 035 $a(CKB)2670000000093627 035 $a(EBL)692389 035 $a(OCoLC)730151724 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000521500 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11330811 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521500 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10518181 035 $a(PQKB)10125907 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC692389 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL692389 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10477501 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL315142 035 $a(OCoLC)742514674 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000093627 100 $a20180706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film /$fAna Ma. Manzanas and Jesus Benito 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (177 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;$v14 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-84966-9 311 $a0-415-88721-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aThus book examines the spatial morphologies represented in a wide range of contemporary ethnic American literary and cinematic works. Drawing from Henri Lefebvre's theorization of space as a living organism, Edward Soja's writings on the postmetropolis, Marc Auge?'s notion of the non-place, Manuel Castells' space of flows, and Michel de Certeau's theories of walking as a practice, the volume extends previous theorizations by examining how spatial uses, appropriations, strictures, ruptures, and reconfigurations function in literary texts and films that represent inhabitants of racial-ethnic b 410 0$aRoutledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;$v14. 606 $aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCities and towns in literature 606 $aSpace in literature 606 $aPlace (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aBorderlands in literature 606 $aCities and towns in motion pictures 606 $aSpace in motion pictures 606 $aPlace (Philosophy) in motion pictures 606 $aBorderlands in motion pictures 615 0$aAmerican literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCities and towns in literature. 615 0$aSpace in literature. 615 0$aPlace (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aBorderlands in literature. 615 0$aCities and towns in motion pictures. 615 0$aSpace in motion pictures. 615 0$aPlace (Philosophy) in motion pictures. 615 0$aBorderlands in motion pictures. 676 $a810.9/358209732 700 $aManzanas Calvo$b Ana Ma$g(Ana Maria),$0610856 701 $aBenito Sanchez$b Jesus$0610855 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910799920103321 996 $aCities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film$93877906 997 $aUNINA