Sometime near the start of the 1990s, the future became a place of national decline. The United States had entered a period of great anxiety fueled by the shrinking of the white middle class, the increasingly visible misery of poor urban blacks, and the mass immigration of nonwhites. Perhaps more than any other event marking the passage through these dark years, the 1992 Los Angeles riots have sparked imaginative and critical works reacting to this profound pessimism. Focusing on a wide range of these creative works, Min Hyoung Song shows how the L.A. riots have become a cultural-literary event—an important reference and resource for imagining the social problems plaguing the United States and its possible futures.
Song considers works that address the riots and often the traumatic place of the Korean American community within them: the independent documentary Sa-I-Gu (Korean for April 29, the date the riots began), Chang-rae Lee’s novel Native Speaker, the commercial film Strange Days, and the experimental drama of Anna Deavere Smith, among many others. He describes how cultural producers have used the riots to examine the narrative of national decline, manipulating language and visual elements, borrowing and refashioning familiar tropes, and, perhaps most significantly, repeatedly turning to metaphors of bodily suffering to convey a sense of an unraveling social fabric. Song argues that these aesthetic experiments offer ways of revisiting the traumas of the past in order to imagine more survivable futures.
Автор: Gossman, Patricia A. , Grossman, Patricia A. Название: Riots And Victims ISBN: 0367286092 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367286095 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 20671.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: This book examines the origins and consequences of the violence that occurred between the Muslim and Hindu communities in pre-partition Bengal, which ultimately resulted in the creation of Pakistan. Riots and Victims introduces new analyses of local violence and identity, and explores issues of far-reaching importance.
Автор: Gossman, Patricia A. Название: Riots And Victims ISBN: 0367301555 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367301552 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Название: Food riots, food rights and the politics of provisions ISBN: 1138040169 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138040168 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book interrogates when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011, a period of historical rupture in the global system of subsistence, getting behind the headlines and inside the politics of this global food crisis.
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