The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los AngelesLos 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 contributors make exciting, innovative connections among the authors and texts inspired by the city, covering the early Spanish settlers, African American writers, the British and German expatriates of the 1930s and 1940s, Latino, and Asian LA literature. The genres discussed include crime novels, science fiction, Hollywood novels, literary responses to urban rebellion, the poetry scene, nature writing, and the most influential non-fiction accounts of the region. Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature. |
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Contents
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1 The literature of the Californios | 13 |
2 The Anglo invention of Los Angeles | 23 |
3 LA fiction through midcentury | 35 |
4 British expatriates and German exiles in 1930s1940s Los Angeles | 49 |
suburban Eden and the fall into history | 59 |
6 Los Angeles and the AfricanAmerican literary imagination | 75 |
AsianAmerican and Latino literature | 87 |
10 Los Angeles science fiction futures | 123 |
11 Hollywood fictions | 135 |
12 The Southland on screen | 145 |
13 Scenes and movements in Southern California poetry | 157 |
Reimagining nature in Los Angeles | 167 |
15 Essaying Los Angeles | 177 |
Guide to further reading | 191 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles Cambridge Companions to Literature |
| Editor | Kevin R. McNamara |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2010 |
| ISBN | 1139825402, 9781139825405 |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / General |
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