Open AccessRe-imagining the Los Angeles River
Author(s) -
John Peterson
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
brock review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1188-9071
DOI - 10.26522/br.v11i2.305
Subject(s) - narrative , storytelling , context (archaeology) , connection (principal bundle) , history , sociology , geography , archaeology , art , literature , engineering , structural engineering
This essay uses my students’ visit to the Los Angeles River and their written reflections as a narrative context for examining literary and filmic representations of the LA River. My larger goal is to illustrate the connection between these representations and the Los Angeles River’s various physical transformations and, in so doing, to underscore the relationship between a site’s storytelling traditions and its ecological degradation and/or preservation.