Heise The Gentrification Plot

New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55348-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Literature Now

Thomas Heise identifies and investigates the emerging “gentrification plot” in contemporary crime fiction. He considers recent novels that depict the sweeping transformations of five iconic neighborhoods—the Lower East Side, Chinatown, Red Hook, Harlem, and Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heise, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Death and Life in Postindustrial New York
1. The Lower East Side: Cops, Culture, and the Creative Class

2. Chinatown: Policing the Ethnic Enclave

3. Red Hook: Blood on the Industrial Waterfront

4. Harlem: Uptown Dead Zones
5. Bedford-Stuyvesant: White Boys in the Hood
Epilogue: Escape from New York
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Heise is an assistant professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, Abington. He is the author of Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture (2011), as well as the novel Moth; or how I came to be with you again (2013) and Horror Vacui: Poems (2006).