《The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles》是一本2010年Cambridge University Press出版的圖書，作者是Kevin R. McNamara 。
基本介紹
- 中文名：The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles
- 作者：Kevin R. McNamara
- 出版社：Cambridge University Press
- ISBN：9780521735544
內容簡介,圖書目錄,
內容簡介
Los Angeles has a tantalizing hold on the American imagination. Its self-magnifying myths encompass Hollywood glamour, Arcadian landscapes, and endless summer, but also the apocalyptic undertow of riots, environmental depredation, and natural disaster. This Companion traces the evolution of Los Angeles as the most public staging of the American Dream - and American nightmares. The expert contributors make exciting, innovative connections among the authors and texts inspired by the city, covering the early Spanish settlers, African American writers, the British and German expatriates of the 1930s and 1940s, Latino, and Asian LA literature. The genres discussed include crime novels, science fiction, Hollywood novels, literary responses to urban rebellion, the poetry scene, nature writing, and the most influential non-fiction accounts of the region. Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
圖書目錄
Chronology
Introduction: landmarks Kevin R. McNamara
1. The literature of the Californios Rosaura Sánchez and BeatricePita
2. The Anglo invention of Los Angeles William AlexanderMcClung
3. LA fiction through mid-century David Wyatt
4. German exiles and British expatriates in 1930s–1940s LA RussellA. Berman
5. Postwar Los Angeles: suburban Eden and the fall into historyPatrick O'Donnell
6. Los Angeles in the African-American literary imagination CharlesScruggs
7. Pacific Rim city: Asian-American and Latino literature JamesKyung-Jin Lee
8. The literature of urban rebellion Julian Murphet
9. City of sleuths William Marling
10. LA's science fiction futures David Seed
11. Hollywood fictions Chip Rhodes
12. The Southland on screen Mark Shiel
13. Los Angeles poetry scenes and movements Bill Mohr
14. Surf, sagebrush, and cement rivers: reimagining nature in LA J.Scott Bryson
15. Essaying Los Angeles Eric Avila
Guide to further reading
Index.
