Frederic Jameson’s comments on the Western Bonaventura Hotel in Los Angeles are made in his

Capitalism (Verso, 1991), pp. 40, 42, 44.

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Jean-François Lyotard attacks the prevailing grand narratives in

The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Manchester University Press, 1984).

Edward Said’s account of the imposition of the Western imperialist grand narrative onto Oriental societies, along with a discussion of Flaubert’s encounter, can be found in his

Orientalism (Harmondsworth, 1985).

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson explore the influence of Derridean deconstruction in

Metaphors We Live By (University of Chicago Press, 1980).

The remarks from Alun Munslow are taken from his

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