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Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City Robert Bennett

Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City By Robert Bennett

Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City by Robert Bennett


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Summary

Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyses criticism of the spatial restructuring of post-WWII New York City.

Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City Summary

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

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.

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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NPB9780415946063
9780415946063
0415946069
Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City: The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital by Robert Bennett
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2003-07-29
142
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