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Imagining Los Angeles
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: David Fine
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-01 - Publisher: University of Nevada Press

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The literary image of Los Angeles has evolved since the 1880s from promotional literature that hyped the region as a New Eden to contemporary visions of the cit
Imagining Argentina
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: Lawrence Thornton
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-11-01 - Publisher: Bantam

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“Remarkable . . . deeply inventive . . . Thorton has imagined Argentina truly; his inspired fable troubles and feeds our own intriguing imagining.”—Los An
Imagining Transit
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Sikivu Hutchinson
Categories: Local transit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

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Using an analysis of the history of Los Angeles's streetcar and highway systems, Sikivu Hutchinson argues that the cultural geography of transportation has had
Leaving the Atocha Station
Language: en
Pages: 191
Authors: Ben Lerner
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-23 - Publisher: Coffee House Press

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Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his r
From Tinseltown to Bordertown
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Celestino Deleyto
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-03 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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Close readings that look for "the real Los Angeles" in a selection of contemporary movies. Los Angeles is a global metropolis whose history and social narrative