@article{436099,
      recid = {436099},
      author = {López-Calvo, Ignacio.},
      title = {Latino Los Angeles in film and fiction : the cultural  production of social anxiety /},
      publisher = {University of Arizona Press,},
      address = {Tucson :},
      pages = {xvii, 239 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Los Angeles has long been a place where cultures clash and  reshape. The city has a growing number of Latina/o authors  and filmmakers who are remapping and reclaiming it through  ongoing symbolic appropriation. In this illuminating book,  Ignacio López-Calvo foregrounds the emotional experiences  of authors, implicit authors, narrators, characters, and  readers in order to demonstrate that the evolution of the  imaging of Los Angeles  in Latino cultural production is  closely related to the politics of spatial location. This  spatial-temporal approach, he writes, reveals significant  social anxieties, repressed rage, and deep racial guilt.  Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction sets out to  reconfigure the scope of Latino literary and cultural  studies. Gathering histories of different regions and  nations, the book sets the interplay of unresolved  contradictions in this particular metropolitan area. The  novelists studied here stem from multiple areas, including  the U.S. Southwest, Guatemala, and Chile. The study also  incorporates non-Latino writers who have contributed to the  Latino culture of the city.   The first chapter examines  Latino cultural production from an ecocritical perspective  on urban interethnic relations. Chapter 2 concentrates on  the representation of daily life in the barrio and the  marginalization of Latino urban youth. The third chapter  explores the space of women and how female characters  expand their area of ooperationsfrom the domestic space to  the public space of both the barrio and the city.   A  much-needed contribution to the fields of urban theory,  race critical theory, Chicana/o-Latina/o studies, and Los  Angeles writing and film, Latino Los Angeles in Film and  Fiction offers analysis from multiple theoretical  perspectives---including urban theory, ecocriticism, ethnic  studies, gender studies and cultural  studies---contextualized with notions of transnationalism  and post-nationalism.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436099},
}