Literature and Race in Los Angeles (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521801492)

This book analyzes contemporary literature in Los Angeles in relation to the city's form, its visual character and its recent political history. Writers such as Bret Easton Ellis and James Ellroy are considered as responding to racial and ethnic partitioning in LA, as well as to increasing cultural homogeneity. Unlike other books on contemporary American literature, this book builds a composite portrait of a single literary scene in order to demonstrate the significance of writing in a tendentially post-literate culture, and the difficulties of literary representation in a city committed to visual representation.

Author: Julian Murphet
ISBN-10: 0521801494
ISBN-13: 9780521801492
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/19/2001
Pages: 214
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.60w x 0.60d