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Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital
By Robert Bennett
Copyright 2003
144 Pages
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Routledge
142 Pages
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Routledge
142 Pages
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Routledge
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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.
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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Robert Bennett