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Cities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film / Ana Ma. Manzanas and Jesus Benito.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manzanas Calvo, Ana Ma. (Ana María), author.
- Series:
- Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 14.
- Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- 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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-82488-X
- 1-283-15142-1
- 9786613151421
- 1-136-82489-8
- 0-203-83080-6
- 9780203830802
- OCLC:
- 730151724
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