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The Border and the Line: Race, Literature, and Los Angeles (Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity) - Softcover

Franco, Dean J.

 
9781503607774: The Border and the Line: Race, Literature, and Los Angeles (Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1503607771 ISBN 13: 9781503607774
Verlag: STANFORD UNIV PR, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Los Angeles is a city of borders and lines, from the freeways that transect its neighborhoods to streets like Pico Boulevard that slash across the city from the ocean to the heart of downtown, creating both ethnic enclaves and pathways for interracial connection. Examining neighborhoods in east, south central, and west L.A.-and their imaginative representation by Chicana, African American, and Jewish American writers-this book investigates the moral and political implications of negotiating space.

The Border and the Line takes up the central conceit of "the neighbor" to consider how the geography of racial identification and interracial encounters are represented and even made possible by literary language. Dean J. Franco probes how race is formed and transformed in literature and in everyday life, in the works of Helena María Viramontes, Paul Beatty, James Baldwin, and the writers of the Watts Writers Workshop. Exploring metaphor and metonymy, as well as economic and political circumstance, Franco identifies the potential for reconciliation in the figure of the neighbor, an identity that is grounded by geographical boundaries and which invites their crossing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dean J. Franco is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at Wake Forest University. He is the author of Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature since 1969 (2012) and Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing (2006).

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Verlag
STANFORD UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1503607771
ISBN 13 
9781503607774
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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4831 GR
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