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Novel shocks : urban renewal and the origins of neoliberalism /

"Novel Shocks: Urban Renewal and the Origins of Neoliberalism traces the political and cultural origins of neoliberalism to the large-scale suburbanization and urban renewal programs of the 1950s and early 1960s, and places the Cold War novel at the center of this story. Throughout the 1950s, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tucker-Abramson, Myka (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Blueprints: Invisible man and the great migration to white flight
  • The price of salt is the city: Patricia Highsmith and the queer frontiers of neoliberalism
  • Naked lunch, or, the last snapshot of the surrealists
  • Shock therapy: Atlas shrugged, urban renewal, and the making of the entrepreneurial subject
  • Fallen corpses and rising cities: The bell jar and the making of the new woman
  • Conclusion: the siege of Harlem and its commune.