Novel shocks : urban renewal and the origins of neoliberalism / Myka Tucker-Abramson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tucker-Abramson, Myka, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Urban renewal in literature.

Discrimination in literature.

Neoliberalism--United States--History--20th century.

Neoliberalism.

History.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

v, 197 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Urban renewal and the origins of neoliberalism

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Novel Shocks: Urban Renewal and the Origins of Neoliberalism traces the political and cultural origins of neoliberalism to the large-scale suburbanization and urban renewal programs of the 1950s and early 1960s, and places the Cold War novel at the center of this story. Throughout the 1950s, a coalition of developers, politicians and planners, bulldozed vast areas of land deemed "slums" or "blighted" to make way for freeways to the new suburban developments, public and private housing projects, medical centers, skyscrapers, and even the new United Nations headquarters. While the program was national, New York was ground zero, and like Haussman's creative destruction of Paris a century before, the demolition and monumental reconstruction of New York created a distinctive, and soon to be global, urban sensorium, one rooted in the new segregated landscapes of prosperous white private space and poor black public space" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Blueprints: Invisible man and the great migration to white flight

The price of salt is the city: Patricia Highsmith and the queer frontiers of neoliberalism

Naked lunch, or, the last snapshot of the surrealists

Shock therapy: Atlas shrugged, urban renewal, and the making of the entrepreneurial subject

Fallen corpses and rising cities: The bell jar and the making of the new woman

Conclusion: the siege of Harlem and its commune.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823282708

0823282708

9780823282692

0823282694

OCLC:

1054265816