Cities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film / / Ana Ma. Manzanas and Jesus Benito

• Autore: Manzanas Calvo Ana Ma (Ana Maria)
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/358209732
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Altri autori: Benito SanchezJesus
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 b
• Titolo autorizzato: Cities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film
• ISBN: 1-136-82488-X; 1-283-15142-1; 9786613151421; 1-136-82489-8; 0-203-83080-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789435403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; ; 14.