Min Hyoung Song

Strange Future

Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Theorizes race and nation in the cultural aftermath of the LA riots.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780822335924
• ISBN-10: 0822335921
• Artikelnr.: 22260256

Autorenporträt

Min Hyoung Song is Associate Professor of English at Boston College. He is a coeditor of Asian American Studies: A Reader.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vii
Introduction: When the Strange Erupts in Culture 1
1. Racial Geography of Southern California 27
2. The Black Body in Pain: Rodney King and Strange Days 68
3. Culture of Wounding: The Riots and Twilight 100
4. Mourning Los Angeles 134
5. A Diasporic Future? Historical Trauma and Native Speaker 165
Epilogue: Bearer of Bad News 199
Notes 215
Works Cited 257
Filmography 271
Index 273