Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City: The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital

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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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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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Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky...Little Boxes All the Same": Deconstructing the Socio-Spatial Regime of Post-WWII New York City 3
Ch. 1 Constructing the Post-WWII Megalopolitan Subject: The Socio-Spatial Ideology of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair 27
Ch. 2 "Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs!": Deconstructing the Architecture of International Style Modernism 53
Ch. 3 The "eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered the cities": The Liquid Geometries of Post-WWII Jazz Literature 69
Ch. 4 "I am for an art that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum": Envisioning Alternative Utopic Urban Spaces 85
Conclusion: "Less is a bore": Imagining the Postmodern City 107
Bibliography 115
Index 123
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