Recursive Frontier - Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles

Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles.

About the author

Michael Docherty is Postdoctoral Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Docherty, Docherty Michael
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781438497112
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9711-2
• No. of pages: 357
• Series: Suny Multiethnic Literatures; SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, Ethnic Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism