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No city occupies as many paradoxical positions in the popular imagination as Los Angeles. It is the new frontier and the end of the trail; it is American Eden and Babylon by the Pacific; it is by turns celebrated and condemned for its diversity; it is the city of perpetual renewal and the city of imminent apocalypse. This collection reveals LA in all its contradictions by documenting a literary tradition as kaleidoscopic and cacophonous as the city itself. The writings explored by Los Angeles: A Literary History record how a dusty cow town morphed into a global metropolis within a matter of decades, and how this unprecedented transformation came to define the experience of modernity. Los Angeles's literature has long gone underappreciated, the city's culture dismissed as flat and frivolous: this volume upturns that narrative, reshaping American literary history by resituating LA as its beating heart.
Contents
Part I. Temporalities: 1. Birth of a city: The 'White Spot' at the western limit (1848-1929) Meagan Meylor; 2. Maturity and mythmaking: Golden age or lost years? (1930-1957) Thomas Gustafson; 3. Comedies physical and metaphysical: LA fiction across the long Sixties (1958-1978) Scott Saul; 4. Metamodern megalopolis: Neoliberalism, multiculturalism, and futurity (1979-2002) Casey Shoop; 5. 'In a desert of perception': Mental fog in Los Angeles fiction (2003-Present) Heather Hicks; Part II. Identity, Resistance, Representation: 6. Literature of south Los Angeles: Space, history, and belonging in black LA Stephanie Leigh Batiste; 7. From Boyle Heights to Westwood: Los Angeles Jewish writing Nicholas Birns; 8. Sensory landscapes of Los Angeles: Remembering and remaking home in Asian American writing Weisong Gao; 9. 'From the wrong side of the tracks': The spaces of LA Latinx writing Ignacio López-Calvo and Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue; 10. Beyond English: Spanish and Japanese literatures of Los Angeles John Alba Cutler and Andrew Way Leong; 11. Participating in the paranoia of the time: Mapping the details of women's writing in/on Los Angeles Summer Kim Lee; 12. Liberating the land of Cooper do-nuts: Writing queer Los Angeles Eir-Anne Edgar; Part III. Identity, Resistance, Representation: 13. Theories of Los Angeles Edward Dimendberg; 14. Suburbs in search of a city? Separation and reconstruction in LA Julian Murphet; 15. Rebirth and renewal in the west: Migration and diasporic literature Suzanne Manizza Roszak; 16. Los Angeles literature as global literature Aparajita Nanda; 17. Wildfires, landslides, and earthquakes at the end of the world: Ecology, environment, and natural disaster in the Los Angeles imagination Nicole Seymour and Zia Salim; Part IV. Genre and Form: 18. The hard-boiled city Will Norman; 19. Tomorrowlands and new frontiers: Los Angeles in science fiction David Sandner; 20. A city (recorded) in verse: Los Angeles's renegade poetics William Mohr; 21. Stage and street in the situated theater of Los Angeles Guy Zimmerman; 22. LA confidentials: Truth and self-making in Los Angeles life writing Blake Allmendinger; 23. Looking for Los Angeles: Reportage and essayism Michelle Chihara; 24. Cultural desert to cultural capital: The critical history of Los Angeles literature Michael Docherty.
