{"product_id":"worlds-at-the-end-los-angeles-infrastructure-and-the-apocalyptic-imagination-hardcover","title":"Worlds at the End: Los Angeles, Infrastructure, and the Apocalyptic Imagination - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePacharee Sudhinaraset\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorlds at the End\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eWorlds at the End\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes destruction, rupture, and continuance through texts ranging from Karen Tei Yamashita's \u003ci\u003eTropic of Orange\u003c\/i\u003e, which considers racial colonial infrastructure, to the work of Diné 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, \u003ci\u003eParable of the Sower\u003c\/i\u003e, where LA's freeways and roadways are routes of forced migration, colonization, and flight. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePacharee Sudhinaraset\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of English at New York University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45426256281702,"sku":"9781439925508","price":194.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/95rAlGNQGh9781439925508.webp?v=1775710604","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/worlds-at-the-end-los-angeles-infrastructure-and-the-apocalyptic-imagination-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}