Novel Shocks : Urban Renewal and the Origins of Neoliberalism / / Myka Tucker-Abramson

• Autore: Tucker-Abramson Myka
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2018]; ©2019
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 pages)
• Disciplina: 813/.54093581
• Soggetto topico: Neoliberalism - United States - History - 20th century; Neoliberalism and literature - United States; Discrimination in literature; Urban renewal in literature; American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- contents -- Introduction -- chapter 1. Blueprints: Invisible Man and the Great Migration to White Flight -- chapter 2. The Price of Salt Is the City: Patricia Highsmith and the Queer Frontiers of Neoliberalism -- chapter 3. Naked Lunch, Or, the Last Snapshot of the Surrealists -- chapter 4. Shock Therapy: Atlas Shrugged, Urban Renewal, and the Making of the Entrepreneurial Subject -- chapter 5. Fallen Corpses and Rising Cities: The Bell Jar and the Making of the New Woman -- Conclusion: The Siege of Harlem and Its Commune -- acknowledgments -- notes -- works cited -- index
• Sommario/riassunto: Throughout the 1950's, a coalition of developers, politicians, and planners bulldozed vast areas of land deemed “slums” or “blighted” to make way for freeways, public and private housing projects, cultural centers, and skyscrapers. While the program was national, New York was ground zero, and the demolition and monumental reconstruction of the city created a distinctive urban sensorium, rooted in the new segregated landscapes of prosperous white private space and poor black public space. Novel Shocks situates these landscapes at the center of the midcentury novel, arguing that James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Patricia Highsmith, Ayn Rand, William Burroughs, Sylvia Plath, and Warren Miller all registered these new urban spaces as traumatic “shocks” that required new aesthetic forms. Rejecting older shock-based modernisms, these novelists forged a new modernism, which reimagined shock as a therapeutic force that would create a more flexible, self-reliant, and resilient subject that would nourish neoliberalism’s roots. In offering a cultural prehistory of neoliberalism, Novel Shocks resituates the Cold War novel as a key archive for understanding neoliberalism’s emergence and offers a more materialist and historically grounded account of neoliberalism’s subjective, affective, and ideological structures.
• Titolo autorizzato: Novel Shocks
• ISBN: 0-8232-8619-3; 0-8232-8271-6; 0-8232-8274-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480813503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Fordham scholarship online.