Cities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film
By: Ana M. Manzanas and Jesús Benito
Contributors: Benito Sánchez, Jesús
Series: Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature -- 8
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415887212
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : lingering on Times Square; title: Chiastic spaces: ports of entry, ports of exit; title: The migrational city in Chuck Palahniuk's "Slumming" : a story by lady baglady, and Helena Viramontes's "The Cariboo Cafe"; title: Unbound cities, concentric circles : Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange; title: Borderlands : middle spaces, hybrid bodies; title: The rhetoric of spatial cutting : borders, scars, open wounds; title: Terminal thinking : border narratives, airport narratives, and the logic of detention; title: Postscript conclusion : from The Great Wall to Babel.