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The Border and the Line: Race, Literature, and Los Angeles

English

By (author): Dean J. Franco

Los Angeles is a city of borders and lines, from the freeways that transect its neighborhoods to streets like Pico Boulevard that slash across the city from the ocean to the heart of downtown, creating both ethnic enclaves and pathways for interracial connection. Examining neighborhoods in east, south central, and west L.A.and their imaginative representation by Chicana, African American, and Jewish American writersthis book investigates the moral and political implications of negotiating space.

The Border and the Line takes up the central conceit of the neighbor to consider how the geography of racial identification and interracial encounters are represented and even made possible by literary language. Dean J. Franco probes how race is formed and transformed in literature and in everyday life, in the works of Helena María Viramontes, Paul Beatty, James Baldwin, and the writers of the Watts Writers Workshop. Exploring metaphor and metonymy, as well as economic and political circumstance, Franco identifies the potential for reconciliation in the figure of the neighbor, an identity that is grounded by geographical boundaries and which invites their crossing.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Jan 2019
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781503607293

About Dean J. Franco

Dean J. Franco is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at Wake Forest University. He is the author of Race Rights and Recognition: Jewish American Literature since 1969 (2012) and Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano Jewish and African American Writing (2006).

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