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October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature PDF

379 Pages·1998·22 MB·English
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by Carlo Rotella| 1998| 379 pages| 22| English

About October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature

Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. The flourishing industry, culture, and literature that had placed prewar Chicago at center stage in American life were entering a time of crisis. The middle class and economic opportunity were leaving the inner city, and Black Southerners arriving in Chicago found themselves increasingly estranged from the nation’s economic and cultural resources. For Algren, Chicago was becoming and “an October sort of city even in the spring, and ” and as Carlo Rotella demonstrates, this metaphorical landscape of fall led Algren and others to forge a literary form that traced the American city’s transformation. Narratives of decline, like the complementary narratives of black migration and inner-city life written by Claude Brown and Gwendolyn Brooks, became building blocks of the postindustrial urban literature.October Cities examines these narratives as they played out in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Manhattan. Through the work of Algren, Brown, Brooks, and other urban writers, Rotella explores the relationship of this new literature to the cities it draws upon for inspiration. The stories told are of neighborhoods and families molded by dramatic urban transformation on a grand scale with vast movements of capital and people, racial succession, and an intensely changing urban landscape.

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Author:Carlo Rotella
Publication Year:1998
ISBN:9780520211445
Pages:379
Language:English
File Size:22
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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