{"product_id":"the-city-in-american-literature-and-culture-hardback-9781108841962","title":"The City in American Literature and Culture (Hardback) 9781108841962","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe City in American Literature and Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKevin R. McNamara (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108841962, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 August 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e350 pages, 6 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.9 cm, 0.78 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Most of the essayists have some training and\/or professional experience in literary study, but they write with a breadth of view and depth of insight that is notable; for instance, they repeatedly address the role of urban and regional planning. McNamara … can be praised for the cast of contributors he assembled, ranging from such well-established figures as John Carlos Rowe and William Boelhower to young scholars such as Kathy Knapp, Carlo Rotella, and Douglas Reichert Powell. ' W. Franklin, Choice Connect\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe city's 'Americanness' has been disputed throughout US history. Pronounced dead in the late twentieth century, cities have enjoyed a renaissance in the twenty-first. Engaging the history of urban promise and struggle as represented in literature, film, and visual arts, and drawing on work in the social sciences, The City in American Literature and Culture examines the large and local forces that shape urban space and city life and the street-level activity that remakes culture and identities as it contests injustice and separation. The first two sections examine a range of city spaces and lives; the final section brings the city into conversation with Marxist geography, critical race studies, trauma theory, slow\/systemic violence, security theory, posthumanism, and critical regionalism, with a coda on city literature and democracy.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Kevin R. McNamara\u003cbr\u003e 1. Antebellum urban publics David Henkin\u003cbr\u003e 2. Intersections: streets and other democratic spaces John Fagg\u003cbr\u003e 3. The literature of neighborhood Carlo Rotella\u003cbr\u003e 4. Writing the ghetto, inventing the slum Thomas Heise\u003cbr\u003e 5. Urban borders, open wounds Ana María Manzanas Calvo and Jesús Benito Sánchez\u003cbr\u003e 6. Gentrification James Peacock\u003cbr\u003e 7. House rules: The New Yorker and the making of the white suburban liberal woman Kathy Knapp\u003cbr\u003e 8. Transnational American cities: Camilo Mejía's ar Ramadi, Iraq, and Jason Hall's Topeka, Kansas John Carlos Rowe\u003cbr\u003e 9. The poetics of rims: New Orleans Ruth Salvaggio\u003cbr\u003e 10. American vertigo: the metropolis and the new biopolitical order William Boelhower\u003cbr\u003e 11. Labor's city Joseph Entin\u003cbr\u003e 12. White immigrant trajectories in US urban literature: the Italian American case Fred Gardaphé\u003cbr\u003e 13. Crime and violence, or hard-boiled chronicles of mean streets and their hidden truths Brian Tochterman\u003cbr\u003e 14. Disaster, apocalypse, and after Sean Grattan\u003cbr\u003e 15. Bohemia Erik Mortenson\u003cbr\u003e 16. The spatial turn and critical race studies Sophia Bamert and Hsuan L. Hsu\u003cbr\u003e 17. From trauma theory to systemic violence: narratives of post-katrina New Orleans Arin Keeble\u003cbr\u003e 18. Security theory Johannes Voelz\u003cbr\u003e 19. Posthuman cities Andrew Pilsch\u003cbr\u003e 20. Critical regionalism: why Hillbilly Elegy and its critics matter to writing about cities Douglas Reichert Powell\u003cbr\u003e Coda: city and polis Kevin R. McNamara.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e], Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266434322712,"sku":"9781108841962","price":81.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108841962i_1cb60427-931a-4090-97c6-fd0e356d86e2.jpg?v=1696727554","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-city-in-american-literature-and-culture-hardback-9781108841962","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}