Western Literature at Century's End
Sketches in Generation X, Los Angeles, and the Post-Civil Rights Novel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10319220 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Krista Comer (0000-0001-8394-5875, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 405-413 |
| Publication date | 2003-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-8684 • E-ISSN: 1533-8584 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/phr.2003.72.3.405 |
| OpenAlex | W2023022466 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Since the early 1990s several "serious" southern California writers have begun writing science fiction, detective stories, mysteries, comic satires, even magical realism, finding freshly relevant ways to represent western life at century's end. Through novels by Sandra Tsing Loh and Cynthia Kadohata, I locate this turn to the popular within a larger political and cultural context we might call "post-Civil Rights." In such novels, texts do not take racial alterity as a starting, radically disruptive fact, although they do not claim that America has outgrown racism. Rather, a new racial subject and/or series of racial formations is under construction, invested in updating and reformulating the status of the nonwhite racial other, to account for the enormity of change in recent years, especially the place of youth within globalization discourse
Art · Civil rights · Comics · Context (archaeology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Racial politics · Racism · Realism · Sociology · Subject (documents · Gender Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Law · Themes in Literature Analysis · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2007 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |