Los Angeles: Coyotes, Smoke & Mirrors
Growing up in Los Angeles I witnessed the erasure of wildness, not only from the metropolis, but from my local landscape. However, I realized that humans, too, were participating in this same fate. Erasure and loss is a shared trauma. Los Angeles’ boundaries, history, its water supply, its sunshine...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
2012-06-01
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| Series: | Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/2982 |
| Summary: | Growing up in Los Angeles I witnessed the erasure of wildness, not only from the metropolis, but from my local landscape. However, I realized that humans, too, were participating in this same fate. Erasure and loss is a shared trauma. Los Angeles’ boundaries, history, its water supply, its sunshine and lifestyle, its iconic monuments—all slip out of grasp just as its very streets and neighbourhoods do, erased and refashioned in a perpetual cycle of re-development. L.A. is constructed as much of erasure as of steel. |
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| ISSN: | 2108-6559 |