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



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Autore: Manzanas Calvo Ana Ma (Ana Maria) Visualizza persona
Titolo: Cities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film / / Ana Ma. Manzanas and Jesus Benito Visualizza cluster
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
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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
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Serie: Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; ; 14.