Chronology; Introduction: landmarks Kevin R. McNamara; 1. The literature of the Californios Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita; 2. The Anglo invention of Los Angeles William Alexander McClung; 3. LA fiction through mid-century David Wyatt; 4. German exiles and British expatriates in 1930s–1940s LA Russell A. Berman; 5. Postwar Los Angeles: suburban Eden and the fall into history Patrick O'Donnell; 6. Los Angeles in the African-American literary imagination Charles Scruggs; 7. Pacific Rim city: Asian-American and Latino literature James Kyung-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.
Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
Kevin R. McNamara is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
"Urbanists and critics, alongside novelists and screenwriters, tend
to sell us what we expect from a too-familiar L.A. As exemplified
by James Kyung-Jin Lee’s nimble juxtaposition of Asian-American and
Latino encounters, may this volume encourage a more diverse, and
more honest, reaction to the real Los Angeles that defies as often
as it defines fictional responses on page and on screen."
John L. Murphy, New York Journal of Books
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