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While the experience represented in an autobiographical narrative seems simply personal, it is anything but merely personal. Mediated through memory and language, "experience" is already an interpretation of the past and of our place in a
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“I understand Los Angeles as a space where “real and imagined narratives overlap” in ways that disrupt both either/or dichotomies (Spanish or Indian, Mexican or American, Brown or White) and “linear historical understandings of this place and its people.”22”
― Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894
― Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894
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