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Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City

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

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Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City book

The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital
ByRobert Bennett
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2003
eBook Published 2 December 2013
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315810881
Pages 142
eBook ISBN 9781315810881
Subjects Humanities, Urban Studies
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Bennett, R. (2003). Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City: The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315810881

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 |24 pages

Introduction: "Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky ... Little Boxes All the Same": Deconstructing the Socio-Spatial Regime of Post-WWII New York City

chapter 1|26 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|16 pages

The "eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered the cities": The Liquid Geometries of Post-WWII Jazz Literature

chapter 4|22 pages

I am for an art that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum": Envisioning Alternative Utopic Urban Spaces

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