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Cities, Borders and Spaces in Intercultural American Literature and Film
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Thus book examines the spatial morphologies represented in a wide range of contemporary ethnic American literary and cinematic works. Drawing from Henri Lefebvre’s theorization of space as a living organism, Edward Soja’s writings on the postmetropolis, Marc Augé’s notion of the non-place, Manuel Castells’ space of flows, and Michel de Certeau’s theories of walking as a practice, the volume... Read more
Introduction: Times Square and the Squaring of Time 1. Chiastic Spaces: Ports of Entry, Ports of Exit 2. The Migrational City in Chuck Plahniuk's Slumming: A Story by Lady Baglady and Helena Viramontes's The Cariboo Cafe 3. Unbounded Cities, Concentric Circles: Karen Tey Yamashita's Tropic of Orange 4. Borderlands: Middle Spaces, Hybrid Bodies 5. The Rhetoric of Cutting: Borders, Scars, Open Wounds 6. Terminal Thinking: Border Narratives, Airport Narratives and the Logic of Detention 7. Conclusion: From the Great Wall to Babel
Biography
Ana María Manzanas is Associate Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Salamanca, Spain.
Jesús Benito is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Valladolid, Spain.
