Literature and Race in Los Angeles

This book analyzes contemporary literature in Los Angeles in relation to the city's form, its visual character and its recent political history. Writers such as Bret Easton Ellis and James Ellroy are considered as responding to racial and ethnic partitioning in LA, as well as to increasing cultural homogeneity. Unlike other books on contemporary American literature, this book builds a composite portrait of a single literary scene in order to demonstrate the significance of writing in a tendentially post-literate culture, and the difficulties of literary representation in a city committed to visual representation.

Author: Julian Murphet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/19/2001
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780521805353