Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Cambridge collections online Online-Ausg. New York : Cambridge Collections Online. Online-Ressource
Edition:
The Cambridge companions complete collection
Edition:
The Cambridge companions to literature and classics
ISBN:
9780521735544
,
0521735548
,
9780521514705
,
0521514703
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
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.
Content:
Introduction: Landmarks / Kevin R. McNamara -- The literature of the Californios / Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita -- The Anglo invention of Los Angeles / William Alexander McClung -- LA fiction through mid-century / David Wyatt -- British expatriates and German exiles in 1930s-1940s Los Angeles / Russell A. Berman -- Postwar Los Angeles : suburban Eden and the fall into history / Patrick O'Donnell -- Los Angeles in the African-American literary imagination / Charles Scruggs -- Pacific Rim city : Asian-American and Latino literature / James Kyung-Jin Lee -- The literature of urban rebellion / Julian Murphet -- City of sleuths / William Marling -- Los Angeles' science fiction futures / David Seed -- Hollywood fictions / Chip Rhodes -- The Southland on screen / Mark Shiel -- Scenes and movements in Southern California poetry / Bill Mohr -- Surf, sagebrush, and cement rivers : reimagining nature in Los Angeles / J. Scott Bryson -- Essaying Los Angeles / Eric Avila
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015)
,
Online-Ausg. New York : Cambridge Collections Online. Online-Ressource
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139002899
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521514705
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Cambridge companion to the literature of Los Angeles Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2010 ISBN 9780521514705
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521735544
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521735548
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521514703
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
USA
;
Literatur
;
Los Angeles
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/CCOL9780521514705
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