Literature and Race in Los Angeles

by Julian Murphet

Book Overview

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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521801494
• ISBN13: 9780521801492
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.7"