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

Published by transcript Verlag 2016

Urban Transformations in the U.S.A.

Spaces, Communities, Representations

Edited by: Julia Sattler

In the series Urban Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839431115

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Julia Sattler teaches American Studies at TU Dortmund University (Germany). Her research focuses on the intersection of American Cultural Studies and Urban Studies, including a comparative study of the Ruhr region and Detroit.

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»Die verschiedenen Essays blicken auf und analysieren eine große Anzahl städtischer Transformationsprozesse und deren kulturelle Repräsentationen. Sie stellen sowohl thematisch als auch methodologisch einen wertvollen und äußerst lesenswerten Beitrag zur aktuellen Stadtforschung dar.«
Nico Völker, KULT_online, 48 (2016)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Narratives of Urban Transformation Reading the Rust Belt in the Ruhr Valley Julia Sattler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Models of Urban Transformation
“Federal City,” “Federal Town,” “Washingtonople” Washington, D.C., and the Transformation of a National Capital Michael Wala Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Insignificance at the Interstate Crossroads Podunks and the Rise of a New Urban Strategy Nick Bacon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Moving Spaces How the Space of Political Struggle for Black Freedom Moves from the Private to the Public Realm Tazalika M. Te Reh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Parasitic Simulacrum Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Florida, and the Urban ‘Creative Class’ Walter Grünzweig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Mapping EthniCity
Negotiating Germanness after World War II Transformations of German Culture in Postwar New York City Insa Neumann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Transnational U.S. Literature Manhattan Music by Meena Alexander Kornelia Freitag Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Barrio Spaces as Alter-Narratives Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running and The Republic of East L.A. Josef Raab Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Chinatown’s Lived and Mystified Foodscapes, 1880s-1990s Selma Siew Li Bidlingmaier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
The Transformation of Manhattan’s Chinatown in Hungarian Travel Writing Erika Mikó Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Liminality and the American City
Detecting Chinatown New York, Crime Fiction, and the Politics of Urban Inscrutability Thomas Heise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Lost in the Stacks Shipping Containers and Narrative Agency in the Posthuman City Jon Hegglund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Fueling Change The Gas Station in Urban America Gary Scales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
The Urban Frontier in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day Utku Mogultay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Contested Spaces
Ways into and out of the Crisis Urban Transformations in the L. A. Times’ Reporting on the 1992 Los Angeles ‘Riots’ Kathrin Muschalik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Reconceptualizing the ‘Inner City’ Blackness, Community and Urban Geography in Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle Eva Boesenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Mapping Gentrification Processes through Film San Francisco’s Mission District in the Documentary Boom: The Sound of Eviction Astrid Kaemmerling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
“[A] freeing of myself from this life from this city” The Queer Spaces of the Hudson River Piers in Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz Faye Chisholm Guenther Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Perspectives in Urban American Studies
City Scripts Urban American Studies and the Conjunction of Textual Strategies and Spatial Processes Barbara Buchenau and Jens Martin Gurr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 426
Keywords: USA; Urban Studies; American Literature; American Culture; City; America; Social Geography; Cultural Geography; Sociology

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Published: January 27, 2016
ISBN: 9783839431115