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Autore: | Manzanas Calvo Ana Ma (Ana Maria) |
Titolo: | Cities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film / / Ana Ma. Manzanas and Jesus Benito |
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.: | 9910799920103321 |
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