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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823282708
  • 9780823282746
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.54093581 23
LOC classification:
  • PS374.U74
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 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.
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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

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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 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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