Cities, Borders and Spaces in Intercultural American Literature and Film.
This title examines the spatial morphologies represented in a wide range of contemporary ethnic American literary and cinematic works.
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| Language: | English |
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2011.
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| Series: | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : lingering on Times Square
- Chiastic spaces: ports of entry, ports of exit
- The migrational city in Chuck Palahniuk's "Slumming" : a story by lady baglady, and Helena Viramontes's "The Cariboo Cafe"
- Unbound cities, concentric circles : Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange
- Borderlands : middle spaces, hybrid bodies
- The rhetoric of spatial cutting : borders, scars, open wounds
- Terminal thinking : border narratives, airport narratives, and the logic of detention
- Postscript conclusion : from The Great Wall to Babel.