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

A timely, ambitious, and original project with meticulous and sophisticated readings of a range of literary texts engaging with Los Angeles writ large. Sudhinaraset traces multiple trajectories of devastation and resilience, mobilizing a women-of-color feminist analytic to do so. Rigorously researched and convincingly argued, Worlds at the End is a deeply ethical and generous book that resolutely refuses despair while facing head on the multiple catastrophes of capitalist extraction and colonial violence.-Grace Hong, Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference Worlds at the End offers a timely and dazzling meditation on worldmaking and worldbreaking political projects by writers of color at the turn of the twenty-first century. Identifying a group of Asian American, Indigenous, Black, and Latinx writers thinking within and through an apocalyptic imagination, Pacharee Sudhinaraset shows how literary production conjures up realities that defy state governance and neglect, racial capitalisms extension of western settler colonial expansion within the metropole, and the material persistence of chattel slaverys dehumanization. Stretching the analysis and politics of women-of-color feminisms, Sudhinaraset shows how these apocalyptic  imaginers envision radical new socialities across racial difference, illuminate histories of ecological disfigurement otherwise obscured by Los Angeless palimpsestic built environment, and adumbrate life-chances for surplus populations that, to paraphrase Audre Lorde-and Sudhinaraset in turn-were never meant to survive.-Victor Mendoza, Associate Professor in the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program and the Departments of Womens & Gender Studies, English, and American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and author of Metroimperial Intimacies: Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 18991913