Category: Literary Criticism

Book Reviews, Literary Criticism

I Am Alive in Los Angeles – Identity and Local Time & Space in Mike Sonksen’s Letters to My City: 2nd Edition

In Los Angeles Literature’s newest book review, burgeoning Southeast L.Á. writer, Gabriel Lopez, reviews the 2nd edition of “Letters to My City” by MIke Sonksen. “While this collection deepens a person’s knowledge of Los Ángeles history, more importantly it profoundly shifts their understanding and relationship to Local Time and Space..” Continue reading I Am Alive in Los Angeles – Identity and Local Time & Space in Mike Sonksen’s Letters to My City: 2nd Edition

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Literary Criticism

Cyclical Time, Slaughter, and Colonial Violence in Sesshu Foster’s Atomik Aztex

“Atomik Aztex” is formally and thematically challenging, implementing postmodern stylistics in conjunction with surrealism, Gonzo “journalism,” and the satirical. Foster also mixes “low-brow” and “high-art,” and popular consumer culture. Continue reading Cyclical Time, Slaughter, and Colonial Violence in Sesshu Foster’s Atomik Aztex

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Literary Criticism

“Oh how so East L.A.”: The Sound of 80s Flashbacks in Chicana Literature

Through the literary soundscapes created by a new generation of Chicana authors such as Estella Gonzalez, Verónica Reyes, and Raquel Gutiérrez, the 1980s becomes an important site for hearing new Chicana voices, stories, histories, representations, in particular of Chicana lesbians. Continue reading “Oh how so East L.A.”: The Sound of 80s Flashbacks in Chicana Literature

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