ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |23 pages
“Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky … Little Boxes All the Same”
Deconstructing the Socio-Spatial Regime of Post-WWII New York City
chapter 1|25 pages
Constructing the Post-WWII Megalopolitan Subject
The Socio-Spatial Ideology of the 1939–40 New York World's Fair
chapter 2|16 pages
“Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs!”
Deconstructing the Architexture of International Style Modernism
chapter 3|15 pages
The “eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered the cities”
The Liquid Geometries of Post-WWII Jazz Literature
chapter 4|21 pages
“I am for an art that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum”
Envisioning Alternative Utopic Urban Spaces
