Urban space and late twentieth-century New York literature : reformed geographies

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    • Neculai, Catalina

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Urban space and late twentieth-century New York literature : reformed geographies

Catalina Neculai

(American literature readings in the 21st century)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-231)

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Description

Interdisciplinary in nature, this project draws on fiction, non-fiction and archival material to theorize urban space and literary/cultural production in the context of the United States and New York City. Spanning from the mid-1970s fiscal crisis to the 1987 Market Crash, New York writing becomes akin to geographical fieldwork in this rich study.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Urban Hermeneutics and the Problem of the Fetish Space PART I: MAPPINGS 1. The Paradigmatic Exceptionality of New York: Scaffolding a Radical Literary Urbanism 2. Downtown, Uptown, and the Urbanization of Literary Consciousness PART II: A NEW YORK TRILOGY INC. 3. Scale, Culture, and Real Estate: The Reproduction of Lowliness in Great Jones Street 4. Kill the Poor : Low-Rent Aesthetics and the New Housing Order 5. Uneven City: Brightness Falls and the Ethnography of Fictitious Finance Epilogue: The Politics of Urban Writing and the Hegemony of FIRE Bibliography

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