Cities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film / Ana Ma Manzanas and Jesus Benito.
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| Superior document: | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 14 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ;
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| Physical Description: | xii, 163 p. |
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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.