| Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City: The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital Contributor(s): Bennett, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415946069 ISBN-13: 9780415946063 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2003 Annotation: 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. Rejecting the dominant trends in post-WWII American urbanism--from International Style Modernist corporate architecture to suburban sprawl--as material expressions of corporate capitalism, these writers attempted to imagine alternative, more democratic and more multicultural, urban possibilities. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Art | American - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 700.974 |
| LCCN: 2003046996 |
| Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6.18" W x 9.3" (0.80 lbs) 142 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New York |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |