The Border and the Line - Race, Literature, and Los Angeles (Hardcover)

Los Angeles is a city of borders and lines, from the freeways that transect its neighborhoods to streets like Pico Boulevard that slash across the city from the ocean to the heart of downtown, creating both ethnic enclaves and pathways for interracial connection. Examining neighborhoods in east, south central, and west L.A.-and their imaginative representation by Chicana, African American, and Jewish American writers-this book investigates the moral and political implications of negotiating space. The Border and the Line takes up the central conceit of "the neighbor" to consider how the geography of racial identification and interracial encounters are represented and even made possible by literary language. Dean J. Franco probes how race is formed and transformed in literature and in everyday life, in the works of Helena Maria Viramontes, Paul Beatty, James Baldwin, and the writers of the Watts Writers Workshop. Exploring metaphor and metonymy, as well as economic and political circumstance, Franco identifies the potential for reconciliation in the figure of the neighbor, an identity that is grounded by geographical boundaries and which invites their crossing.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity
Release date:	December 2018
First published:	2019
Authors:	Dean J. Franco
Dimensions:	216 x 140mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-5036-0729-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies Promotions
LSN:	1-5036-0729-1
Barcode:	9781503607293

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