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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780521735544
Los Angeles has a tantalizing hold on the American
imagination. Its self-magnifying myths encompass Hollywood glamour,
Arcadian landscapes, and endless summer, but also the apocalyptic
undertow of riots, environmental depredation, and natural disaster.
This Companion traces the evolution of Los Angeles as the most
public staging of the American Dream – and American nightmares. The
expert contributors make exciting, innovative connections among the
authors and texts inspired by the city, covering the early Spanish
settlers, African American writers, the British and German
expatriates of the 1930s and 1940s, Latino, and Asian LA
literature. The genres discussed include crime novels, science
fiction, Hollywood novels, literary responses to urban rebellion,
the poetry scene, nature writing, and the most influential
non-fiction accounts of the region. Diverse, vibrant, and
challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive
guide to LA in literature.
Chronology
Introduction: landmarks Kevin R. McNamara
1. The literature of the Californios Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice
Pita
2. The Anglo invention of Los Angeles William Alexander
McClung
3. LA fiction through mid-century David Wyatt
4. German exiles and British expatriates in 1930s–1940s LA Russell
A. Berman
5. Postwar Los Angeles: suburban Eden and the fall into history
Patrick O’Donnell
6. Los Angeles in the African-American literary imagination Charles
Scruggs
7. Pacific Rim city: Asian-American and Latino literature James
Kyung-Jin Lee
8. The literature of urban rebellion Julian Murphet
9. City of sleuths William Marling
10. LA’s science fiction futures David Seed
11. Hollywood fictions Chip Rhodes
12. The Southland on screen Mark Shiel
13. Los Angeles poetry scenes and movements Bill Mohr
14. Surf, sagebrush, and cement rivers: reimagining nature in LA J.
Scott Bryson
15. Essaying Los Angeles Eric Avila
Guide to further reading
Index.
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