The Recursive Frontier
Docherty, Michael
| Autor: | Docherty, Michael |
|---|---|
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 02.11.2024 |
| EAN: | 9781438497129 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 358 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | SUNY Press |
| Untertitel: | Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles |
Produktinformationen "The Recursive Frontier"
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. Contrary to the received wisdom that Depression-era narratives mourn the frontier's demise, Docherty argues that the frontier lives on as a cruel set of rules for survival in urban modernity, governing how texts figure race, space, mobility, and masculinity. Moving from dancehalls to offices to oil fields and beyond, the book provides a richer, more diverse picture of LA's literary production during this period, as well as a vivid account of LA's cultural and social development as it transformed into the multiethnic megalopolis we know today.
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