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  • Los Angeles

    A Literary History

    Edited by Michael Docherty, Ignacio López-Calvo ...
    No city occupies as many paradoxical positions in the popular imagination as Los Angeles. It is the new frontier and the end of the trail; it is American Eden and Babylon by the Pacific; it is by turns celebrated and condemned for its diversity; it is the city of perpetual renewal and the city of imminent apocalypse. This collection reveals LA in all its contradictions by documenting a literary ... Read more

    $131.99 USD

  • The Recursive Frontier

    Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles

    by Michael Docherty ...
    Series series SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures
    The Recursive Frontier is an innovative spatial history of both the literature of Los Angeles and the city itself in the mid-twentieth century. Setting canonical texts alongside underexamined works and sources such as census bulletins and regional planning documents, Michael Docherty identifies the American frontier as the defining dynamic of Los Angeles fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s. ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West

    Edited by Steven Frye ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most vibrant and expansive traditions in world literature. The American West occupies a unique place in the global imagination, and the literature it produced transcends the category of 'region' in theme and form. Written by prominent international scholars, the essays cover a diverse group of key texts and authors, including major ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature

    Edited by Leslie Bow, Russ Castronovo ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks of Literature
    An essential and field-defining resource, this volume brings fresh approaches to major US novels, poetry, and performance literature of the twentieth century. With sections on 'structures', 'movements', 'attachments', and 'imaginaries', this handbook brings a new set of tools and perspectives to the rich and diverse traditions of American literary production. The editors have turned to leading as ... Read more

    $154.99 USD

  • A History of Western American Literature

    Edited by Susan Kollin ...
    The American West is a complex region that has inspired generations of writers and artists. Often portrayed as a quintessential landscape that symbolizes promise and progress for a developing nation, the American West is also a diverse space that has experienced conflicting and competing hopes and expectations. While it is frequently imagined as a place enabling dreams of new beginnings for ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Approaches to American Cultural Studies

    Edited by Antje Dallmann, Eva Boesenberg, Martin Klepper ...
    Approaches to American Cultural Studies provides an accessible yet comprehensive overview of the diverse range of subjects encompassed within American Studies, familiarising students with the history and shape of American Studies as an academic subject as well as its key theories, methods, and concepts.Written and edited by an international team of authors based primarily in Europe, the book is ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Emergent U.S. Literatures

    From Multiculturalism to Cosmopolitanism in the Late Twentieth Century

    by Cyrus Patell ...
    Emergent U.S. Literatures introduces readers to the foundational writers and texts produced by four literary traditions associated with late-twentieth-century US multiculturalism. Examining writing by Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and gay and lesbian Americans after 1968, Cyrus R. K. Patell compares and historicizes what might be characterized as the minority literatures ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles

    Edited by Kevin R. McNamara ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    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 ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Street Level: Los Angeles in the Twenty-First Century

    by Rob Sullivan ...
    In the latter part of the C20th, a series of seminal books were written which examined Los Angeles by the likes of Reyner Banham, Mike Davis, Edward Soja, Allen Scott, Michael Dear, Frederick Jameson, Umberto Eco, Bernard-Henri Levy, and Jean Baudrillard which have been hugely influential in thinking about cities more broadly. The debates which were generated by these works have tended to be very ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Disidentifications

    Queers of Color And The Performance of Politics

    by José Esteban Muñoz ...
    Series Book 2 - Cultural Studies of the Americas
    There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Muñoz calls this process “disidentification,” and through a study ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Gunfighter Nation

    The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America

    by Richard Slotkin ...
    Series Book 3 - Mythology of the American West
    National Book Award Finalist: The "impressive" conclusion to the "magisterial trilogy on the mythology of violence in American history" ( Film Quarterly)."The myth of the Western frontier—which assumes that whites' conquest of Native Americans and the taming of the wilderness were preordained means to a progressive, civilized society—is embedded in our national psyche. U.S. troops called Vietnam ... Read more

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  • America on Film

    Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies

    by Harry M. Benshoff, Sean Griffin ...
    A comprehensive and insightful examination of the representation of diverse viewpoints and perspectives in American cinema throughout the 20th and 21st centuriesAmerica on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies, now in its third edition, is an authoritative and lively examination of diversity issues within American cinema. Celebrated authors and academics Harry M. ... Read more

    $46.00 USD