Cities, borders, and spaces in intercultural American literature and film / Ana Ma Manzanas and Jesús Benito.

SeriesRoutledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 14
Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 14. ^A707373
Contents Introduction : lingering on Times Square -- Chiastic spaces: ports of entry, ports of exit -- The migrational city in Chuck Palahniuk's "Slumming" : a story by lady baglady, and Helena Viramontes's "The Cariboo Cafe" -- Unbound cities, concentric circles : Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange -- Borderlands : middle spaces, hybrid bodies -- The rhetoric of spatial cutting : borders, scars, open wounds -- Terminal thinking : border narratives, airport narratives, and the logic of detention -- Postscript conclusion : from The Great Wall to Babel.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2010035077
ISBN9780415887212
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