Urban Transformations in the U.S.A. : : Spaces, Communities, Representations /

Urban Transformations in the U.S.A. : : Spaces, Communities, Representations / / ed. by Julia Sattler.

How did American cities change throughout the 20th and early 21st century? This timely publication integrates research from American Literary and Cultural Studies, Urban Studies and History. The essays range from negotiations of the »ethnic city« in US literature and media, to studies of recent urba...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Bacon, Nick,
Bidlingmaier, Selma Siew Li,
Boesenberg, Eva,
Buchenau, Barbara,
Freitag, Kornelia,
Grünzweig, Walter,
Guenther, Faye Chisholm,
Gurr, Jens Martin,
Hegglund, Jon,
Heise, Thomas,
Kaemmerling, Astrid,
Mikó, Erika,
Mogultay, Utku,
Muschalik, Kathrin,
Neumann, Insa,
Raab, Josef,
Reh, Tazalika M. Te,
Sattler, Julia,
Scales, Gary,
Wala, Michael,
HerausgeberIn:
Sattler, Julia,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:Urban Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (426 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Narratives of Urban Transformation
  • Models of Urban Transformation
  • "Federal City," "Federal Town," "Washingtonople"
  • Insignificance at the Interstate
  • Moving Spaces
  • Parasitic Simulacrum
  • Mapping EthniCity
  • Negotiating Germanness after World War II
  • Transnational U.S. Literature
  • Barrio Spaces as Alter-Narratives
  • Chinatown's Lived and Mystified Foodscapes, 1880s-1990s
  • The Transformation of Manhattan's Chinatown in Hungarian Travel Writing
  • Liminality and the American City
  • Detecting Chinatown
  • Lost in the Stacks
  • Fueling Change
  • The Urban Frontier in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day
  • Contested Spaces
  • Ways into and out of the Crisis
  • Reconceptualizing the 'Inner City'
  • Mapping Gentrification Processes through Film
  • "[A] freeing of myself from this life from this city"
  • Perspectives in Urban American Studies
  • City Scripts
  • Authors

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