October Cities the Redevelopment of Urban Literature
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of California Pr
- Publish date: 05/01/1998
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.
"Rotella does an extraordinary job of describing both the ideology of urban planning and its actual realization in the built environment, and he shows how cultural (literary) constrauctions of meaning simultaneously reflect and inform social reality". -- Richard Slotkin, author of Gunfighter Nation
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