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Rotella, Carlo. "October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature," American Studies Program, Yale University, September 1994.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the inner city’s changing social landscape obliged urban intellectuals to revise their cultural maps of urban America. “October Cities” examines bodies of writing that converge on three neighborhoods in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York. Together they figure the post-industrial inner city’s emergence; they also enact a literary succession, as new ghetto narratives (e.g., Brown’s Manchild in the Promised Land) overlap with pre-existing generic models (e.g., Nelson Algren’s late Chicago School works). Using novels and a wide variety of satellite texts, “October Cities” outlines a post-WWII urban crisis consisting of parallel upheavals in the city of fact and the city of feeling.
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