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Cities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film /

Title
Cities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film / Ana Ma Manzanas and Jesús Benito.
Author
Manzanas Calvo, Ana Ma. (Ana María)
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2011.

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Additional Authors
Benito Sánchez, Jesús.
Description
xii, 163 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 14
Uniform Title
Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 14.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780415887212
  • 0415887216
LCCN
2010035077
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library