Los Angeles: A Literary History

Michael Docherty (Curatore)

Ignacio López-Calvo (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2026

No city occupies as many paradoxical positions in the popular imagination as Los Angeles. It is the new frontier and the end of the trail; it is American Eden and Babylon by the Pacific; it is by turns celebrated and condemned for its diversity; it is the city of perpetual renewal and the city of imminent apocalypse. This collection reveals LA in all its contradictions by documenting a literary tradition as kaleidoscopic and cacophonous as the city itself. The writings explored by Los Angeles: A Literary History record how a dusty cow town morphed into a global metropolis within a matter of decades, and how this unprecedented transformation came to define the experience of modernity. Los Angeles's literature has long gone underappreciated, the city's culture dismissed as flat and frivolous: this volume upturns that narrative, reshaping American literary history by resituating LA as its beating heart.

• Curatore: Michael Docherty, Ignacio López-Calvo
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2026
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 432 p.
• Peso: 500 gr.
• EAN: 9781009745710

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