Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City
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Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City

The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital

  1. 142 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City

The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital

About this book

Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyzes how literary movements such as the Beat Generation, the New York poets and Black Arts Moment criticized the spatial restructuring of post-WWII New York City.

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Information

Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781317793878
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: ā€œLittle Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky … Little Boxes All the Sameā€: Deconstructing the Socio-Spatial Regime of Post-WWII New York City
  9. Chapter One: Constructing the Post-WWII Megalopolitan Subject: The Socio-Spatial Ideology of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair
  10. Chapter Two: ā€œMoloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs!ā€: Deconstructing the Architexture of International Style Modernism
  11. Chapter Three: The ā€œeli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered the citiesā€: The Liquid Geometries of Post-WWII Jazz Literature
  12. Chapter Four: ā€œI am for an art that does something other than sit on its ass in a museumā€: Envisioning Alternative Utopic Urban Spaces
  13. Conclusion: ā€œLess is a boreā€: Imagining the Postmodern City
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index