{"product_id":"worlds-at-the-end-9781439925508","title":"Worlds at the End","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tearing down existing institutions t","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50029436731735,"sku":"9781439925508","price":88.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439925508.jpg?v=1740090228","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/worlds-at-the-end-9781439925508","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}