Literature and Race in Los Angeles

by Julian Murphet

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Los Angeles is both the most fragmented and the most minoritized metropolis in America, and its most luridly abstract and aestheticized city. With more than eighty-five languages being spoken in its classrooms, and one homogeneous visual language emanating from its entertainment industry, LA radically challenges the prospects of that archaic representational medium: literature. In its investigation of the work of Bret Easton Ellis, James Ellroy, Anna...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:052180535X

ISBN13:9780521805353

Release Date:March 2001

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:214 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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