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Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City
The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital
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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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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky … Little Boxes All the Same”: Deconstructing the Socio-Spatial Regime of Post-WWII New York City
- Chapter One: Constructing the Post-WWII Megalopolitan Subject: The Socio-Spatial Ideology of the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair
- Chapter Two: “Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs!”: Deconstructing the Architexture of International Style Modernism
- Chapter Three: The “eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered the cities”: The Liquid Geometries of Post-WWII Jazz Literature
- Chapter Four: “I am for an art that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum”: Envisioning Alternative Utopic Urban Spaces
- Conclusion: “Less is a bore”: Imagining the Postmodern City
- Bibliography
- Index
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