October Cities The Redevelopment of Urban Literature 1st Edition by Carlo Rotella ISBN 9780520920101 0520920104

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ISBN 10: 0520920104
ISBN 13: 9780520920101
Author: Carlo Rotella

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 “an October sort of city even in the spring,” 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.
October Cities The Redevelopment of Urban Literature 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I The Decline and Fall of the Old Neighborhood

Exposition: The Story of Decline

The Old Neighborhood: Industrial Chicago and Its Literatures

Closing Time: The Man with the Golden Arm

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After the End: The Story of Decline as Act One

Part 2 The Neighborhood Novel and the Transformation of the Inner City

Exposition: South Street and the Neighborhood Novel

Urban Village and Black Metropolis: John Fury and South Street

The Literature of Postindustrial South Street

Part 3 The City of Feeling in Crisis

Exposition: That Separate World

Violence, the Second Ghetto, and the Logic of Urban Crisis

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Checkpoint Frederick Douglass: Warren Miller and the Boundaries of the Ghetto

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The Box of Groceries and the Omnibus Tour: Manchild in the Promised Land

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The War of Position

Conclusion: Notes from a Cultural Sea Change

Notes

Index

 

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