Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City : the Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital.
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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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Series: | American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
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Table 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; The City andthe Arts: Theorizing Urban Space and Urban Culture; Frontiers for a Free Poetic Life:The Aesthetic Politics of Urban Space; Chapter One. Constructing the Post-WWII Megalopolitan Subject:The Socio-Spatial Ideology of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair.
- The Futurama's ""Vaguely Miesian"" Dream Cities: The Urban Ideology ofDavid Gelernter's 1939, The Lost World of the Fair""[W]e must Bulid them the Higways so they can Sell us the Cars"": Deconstructingthe Fair's Corporate Edeology; The Future will be ""AsAmerican as Coca-Cola"": The ""Goddam Battle Zone"" of Miles Beller's Dream of Venus; Chapter Two. ""Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs!"": Deconstructing the Architexture of International Style Modernism; From Industrial to Postindustrial Urbanism.
- Deconstructing the International Style Modernist Corporate Skyscraper:George Oppen's Critique of Lever HouseChapter Three. The ""eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered thecities"": The Liquid Geometries of Post-WWII Jazz Literature; Radicalizing Jazz Literature: From the Beat Generation tothe Black Arts Movement; Chapter Four.""I am for an art that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum"": Envisioning Alternative Utopic Urban Spaces; ""Literature as Destruction of Space"": The Precarious Architecture ofBarbara Quest's Spatial Imagination.
- ""Everything / Suddenly Honks: It is 12:40 of / a Thursday"": Frank O'Hara'sNew York SublimeConclusion:""Less is a bore"": Imagining the Postmodern City; Bibliography; Index.