Worlds at the End: Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and the Apocalyptic Imagination by Sudhinaraset, Pacharee

Worlds at the End: Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and the Apocalyptic Imagination

Worlds at the End attends to a body of literature that renders Los Angeles's infrastructure, or its...
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Author: Pacharee Sudhinaraset
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Language: English
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Worlds at the End: Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and the Apocalyptic Imagination by Sudhinaraset, Pacharee

Worlds at the End: Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and the Apocalyptic Imagination

CHF 30.47

Worlds at the End: Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and the Apocalyptic Imagination

CHF 30.47
Author: Pacharee Sudhinaraset
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Worlds at the End attends to a body of literature that renders Los Angeles's infrastructure, or its material foundations, as central to the rise and consolidation of colonial life. Pacharee Sudhinaraset employs a women-of-color feminist methodology to examine Indigenous, Black, Asian American, and Latinx literary works about apocalypse and the end times.

Worlds at the End analyzes destruction, rupture, and continuance through texts ranging from Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange, which considers racial colonial infrastructure, to the work of Din? poet Esther Belin, which illuminates how the separation between the Indian reservation and LA is part of a broader infrastructural network of termination. And she unpacks Octavia Butler's post-apocalyptic novel, Parable of the Sower, where LA's freeways and roadways are routes of forced migration, colonization, and flight.

Tearing down existing institutions that marginalize people of color and moving past them, Worlds at the End highlights the imaginaries of those subjugated, racialized, and made other, for whom modernity, freedom, and progress meant violence, brutality, and relegation to the status of devalued surplus populations. As Sudhinaraset deftly shows, the apocalypse marks moments of historical and spatial transition, offering stories of doomsdays that will give rise to resurgence and regeneration.

Author: Pacharee Sudhinaraset
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 11/01/2024
Pages: 250
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9781439925515

About the Author
Pacharee Sudhinaraset is Assistant Professor of English at New York University.

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