![]() | Novel Shocks: Urban Renewal and the Origins of Neoliberalism Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Urban renewal in literature; Discrimination in literature; Neoliberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; 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. Tucker-Abramson Myka : Myka Tucker-Abramson is Assistant Professor in American Literature at the University of Warwick. Myka Tucker-Abramson is Assistant Professor in American Literature at the University of Warwick. |
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