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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Urban StudiesPublisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Edition: 1. AuflDescription: 1 online resource (426 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783837631111
  • 9783839431115
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9321732 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • HT123
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.
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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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