About this book
Since its birth in 1781, Los Angeles has come to define both the material and spiritual force of American civilization. The American dream is realized, experienced, and lost in the City of Angels. Unmasking L.A.: Third Worlds and the City, an interdisciplinary collection of essays, dialogues, and photographs, seeks to reveal the third world geographies, cultures, and populations of Los Angeles. It examines the social, political, cultural, and literary climate of the city, bringing together diverse responses to the complexities facing Los Angeles from respected intellectuals, writers, and artists such as Mike Davis, Deepak Chopra, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. By uncovering the forces that marginalize Los Angeles's ever-shifting populations into internal third worlds, the collection unmasks the raw contradictions, the grim paradoxes, and the understated ironies of the global city.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Journey Beyond the Stars: Los Angeles and Third Worlds
- 2 Sanbhashana: Los Angeles and the Philosophies of Disaster
- 3 Satellites of Sorrow: Los Angeles, Prison, and Circuits of Social Control
- 4 Five Poems: L.A. Is Still a Place, These Hands, If I Were To Say, Conversation Inside-Outside, and Earth Swans
- 5 Mapping the Unfindable: Neighborhoods West of Downtown L.A. as a Magic Realist Computer Game
- 6 Third World and "Illegal" in the City of Angels
- 7 Deepak on Deepak: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Spiritual Third Worlds, and the City
- 8 Seeing L.A. Anew (24 Photographs)
- 9 This Side of Paradise: South Central Los Angeles and Minor Literature
- 10 Resistance Art in Los Angeles
- 11 Los Angeles as Metaphor: Boiling Frogs, Killer Bees, and Subversive Politics
- 12 The Occidental Accident
- 13 The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy
- 14 Forces of Nature: The Pasts and Futures of Los Angeles. An Introduction to Morrow Mayo and "The Birth of Los Angeles"
- 15 The Birth of Los Angeles
- Index