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

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

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

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

by Robert Bennett

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781317793878
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/02/2013
Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 142
File size: 759 KB

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Robert Bennett

Table of Contents

1. Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky...Little Boxes all the Same 2. Constructing the Post-WWII Megalopolitan Subject 3. Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs! 4. An eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered the cities 5. I am for an art that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum Works Citied
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