TY - BOOK AU - Bacon,Nick AU - Bidlingmaier,Selma Siew Li AU - Boesenberg,Eva AU - Buchenau,Barbara AU - Freitag,Kornelia AU - Grünzweig,Walter AU - Guenther,Faye Chisholm AU - Gurr,Jens Martin AU - Hegglund,Jon AU - Heise,Thomas AU - Kaemmerling,Astrid AU - Mikó,Erika AU - Mogultay,Utku AU - Muschalik,Kathrin AU - Neumann,Insa AU - Raab,Josef AU - Reh,Tazalika M.Te AU - Sattler,Julia AU - Scales,Gary AU - Wala,Michael TI - Urban Transformations in the U.S.A.: Spaces, Communities, Representations T2 - Urban Studies SN - 9783837631111 AV - HT123 U1 - 810.9321732 22/ger PY - 2016///] CY - Bielefeld PB - transcript Verlag KW - American literature KW - United States KW - History and criticism KW - Förenta staterna KW - Cities and towns in literature KW - Cities and towns KW - America KW - American Culture KW - American Literature KW - City KW - Cultural Geography KW - Social Geography KW - Sociology KW - USA KW - Urban Studies KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 urban phenomena and their representations: gentrification, re-appropriation and conversion of urban spaces in the USA.These interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on American cities provide unique points of access for studying the complex narratives of urban transformation UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839431115?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839431115 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839431115/original ER -