Cities, Borders, and Spaces in Intercultural American Literature and Film

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ID19907307
AuthorsAna Maria Manzanas Calvo (0000-0001-9830-638X), Ana Ma Manzanas, Jesús Benito Sánchez (0000-0002-8819-3411), Jesús Benito
Year2011
Publication date2011-06-21
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCities, Borders and Spaces in Intercultural American Literature and Film (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203830802
OpenAlexW1605117106
Open LibraryOL37115143M
ISBN9780203830802
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This 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 extends previous theorizations by examining how spatial uses, appropriations, strictures, ruptures, and reconfigurations function in literary texts and films that represent inhabitants of racial-ethnic borderlands and migrational U.S. cities. The authors argue for the necessity of an alternative poetics of place that makes room for those who move beyond the spaces of traditional visibility—displaced and homeless people, undocumented workers, hybrid and/or marginalized populations rendered invisible by the cultural elite, yet often disciplined by agents of surveillance. Building upon Doreen Massey’s conceptualization of liminal space as a sphere in which narratives intersect, clash, or cooperate, this study recasts spatial paradigms to insert an array of emergent geographies of invisibility that the volume traverses via the analysis of works by Chuck Palahniuk, Helena Viramontes, Karen Tei Yamashita, Gloria Anzaldúa, Alejandro Morales, and Li-Young Lee, among others, and films such as Thomas McCarthy’s The Visitor, Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal, and Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Babel

Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Latin American and Latino Studies · 20th century · 21st century · American · American literature · Auteurs issus des minorités · Borderlands in literature · Borderlands in motion pictures · Borderline personality disorder · Cities and towns in literature · Cities and towns in motion pictures · Espace au cinéma · Espace dans la littérature · General · Hispanic American · History and criticism · Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature · Literary Criticism · Littérature américaine · Minority authors · Place (philosophy) in literature · Place (Philosophy) in motion pictures · Régions frontalières au cinéma · Régions frontalières dans la littérature · Space in literature · Space in motion pictures · Villes au cinéma

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