The Cambridge companion to the literature of Los Angeles [electronic resource] / [edited by] Kevin R. McNamara.

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"Los 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 Ang...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Cambridge companions to literature.
Other Authors: McNamara, Kevin R., 1958-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
American literature > California > Los Angeles > History and criticism.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > In literature.
Online Access:
Cambridge Companions Online: Full Collection: 2010 (Digital Object Identifier Permalink)
ProQuest One Literature: 2010 (ProQuest)
Variant Title:
Literature of Los Angeles
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction: Landmarks / Kevin R. McNamara
  • The literature of the Californios / Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita
  • The Anglo invention of Los Angeles / William Alexander McClung
  • LA fiction through mid-century / David Wyatt
  • British expatriates and German exiles in 1930s-1940s Los Angeles / Russell A. Berman
  • Postwar Los Angeles : suburban Eden and the fall into history / Patrick O'Donnell
  • Los Angeles in the African-American literary imagination / Charles Scruggs
  • Pacific Rim city : Asian-American and Latino literature / James Kyung-Jin Lee
  • The literature of urban rebellion / Julian Murphet
  • City of sleuths / William Marling
  • Los Angeles' science fiction futures / David Seed
  • Hollywood fictions / Chip Rhodes
  • The Southland on screen / Mark Shiel
  • Scenes and movements in Southern California poetry / Bill Mohr
  • Surf, sagebrush, and cement rivers : reimagining nature in Los Angeles / J. Scott Bryson
  • Essaying Los Angeles / Eric Avila.