Los Angeles Logos. Literární ztvárnění města-hranice v chicanské próze

• Authors: Riebová Markéta

Title variants

EN

Los Angeles Logos. Literary Representation of the City-Frontier in Chicana/o Fiction

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In Chicana/o prose, namely the fiction of Helena María Viramontes, the artistic depiction of the city of Los Angeles becomes a synecdochic expression of the frontier space. It is a crossroads of viewpoints stemming from the confrontation of the dividing physical frontier and the porous cultural frontier that leads to miscenegation. The article analyzes such a literary representation of space using the contrasting dynamics of the literary images of the Latino barrio and the urban freeways that threaten to destroy it. It emphasizes a different approach of Viramontes to the urban myth of the Californian metropolis. With its references to Latin-American authors, the article furthermore suggests the possibility of reading the Viramontes novel as part of the Latin-American literary tradition.

Keywords

CS

Hispánsko-anglosaská kulturní odlišnost; hranice; míšení; synekdocha; metafora; městský prostor; barrio; dálnice; Helena María Viramontes; chicanská literatura

EN

Hispanic-Anglo-Saxon cultural divide; frontier; miscenegation; syneqdoche; metaphor; urban space; barrio ; freeway; Helena María Viramontes; Chicana/o literature

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 55
• Pages: 96-105

Contributors

author

Riebová Markéta

• Katedra romanistiky FF UP