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

Throughout the 1950s, 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 grou...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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