Los Angeles, espace augmenté révélé par un genre littéraire : l’anthologie
This paper aims at exploring the atypical space of Los Angeles thanks to the literary genre of the anthology and the almost homological relationship that emanates between the megalopolis’s territory and this particular genre. Los Angeles has been a literary motif since its very creation and the city...
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| Language: | deu |
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Conserveries Mémorielles
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Conserveries Mémorielles |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cm/2151 |
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| Summary: | This paper aims at exploring the atypical space of Los Angeles thanks to the literary genre of the anthology and the almost homological relationship that emanates between the megalopolis’s territory and this particular genre. Los Angeles has been a literary motif since its very creation and the city can be read in novels, autobiographies, journals, poems of chronicles written by authors just passing through, immigrants or natives of a place that rapidly became a culturally emblematic beacon. Often perceived as an anti-intellectual space, Los Angeles is a city that was built on the indelible association that unites it to the Hollywood industry and which produced exponentially - even more so from WWII - an idealized imagery of its territory leading to a collective imaginary that governs many expectations as well as the irresistible diktat of what the “American Way of Life” is supposed to be or look like. This mediatised memory thus supplanted the local human memory that now belongs to the background, a mediatised memory that emphasizes the advent of an augmented space. Yet, it is through the reproduction of the compressive process used by the augmented memory that the anthologies taking Los Angeles as their main character get to compete against a chronophagous mechanism and attempt to reevaluate a memorial process, whether spatial and/or temporal, much more in concordance with the daily reality of the territory. |
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| ISSN: | 1718-5556 |