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The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles - SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures Michael Docherty
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The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles - SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures
Michael Docherty
Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles. The Recursive Frontier is an innovative spatial history of both the literature of Los Angeles and the city itself in the mid-twentieth century. Setting canonical texts alongside underexamined works and sources such as census bulletins and regional planning documents, Michael Docherty identifies the American frontier as the defining dynamic of Los Angeles fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Contrary to the received wisdom that Depression-era narratives mourn the frontier's demise, Docherty argues that the frontier lives on as a cruel set of rules for survival in urban modernity, governing how texts figure race, space, mobility, and masculinity. Moving from dancehalls to offices to oil fields and beyond, the book provides a richer, more diverse picture of LA's literary production during this period, as well as a vivid account of LA's cultural and social development as it transformed into the multiethnic megalopolis we know today.
| Medios de comunicación | Libros Paperback Book (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado) |
| Publicado | 2 de noviembre de 2024 |
| ISBN13 | 9781438497129 |
| Editores | State University of New York Press |
| Páginas | 358 |
| Dimensiones | 152 × 228 × 26 mm · 534 g |
| Lengua | Inglés |
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