Literature and Race in Los Angeles (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cultural Margins
Release date:	March 2001
First published:	2001
Authors:	Julian Murphet
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	214
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-80149-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-521-80149-4
Barcode:	9780521801492

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