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Introduction 1
1. Blueprints: Invisible Man and the Great Migration to White Flight 25
2. The Price of Salt Is the City: Patricia Highsmith and the Queer Frontiers of Neoliberalism 46
3. Naked Lunch, Or, the Last Snapshot of the Surrealists 63
4. Shock Therapy: Atlas Shrugged, Urban Renewal, and the Making of the Entrepreneurial Subject 84
5. Fallen Corpses and Rising Cities: The Bell Jar and the Making of the New Woman 104
Conclusion: The Siege of Harlem and Its Commune 125
Acknowledgments 139
Notes 143
Works Cited 163
Index 185

Novel Shocks

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 4 December 2018
      ISBN-13 9780823282708
      978-0823282708
      ISBN-10 0823282708
      Also in:
      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Introduction 1
      1. Blueprints: Invisible Man and the Great Migration to White Flight 25
      2. The Price of Salt Is the City: Patricia Highsmith and the Queer Frontiers of Neoliberalism 46
      3. Naked Lunch, Or, the Last Snapshot of the Surrealists 63
      4. Shock Therapy: Atlas Shrugged, Urban Renewal, and the Making of the Entrepreneurial Subject 84
      5. Fallen Corpses and Rising Cities: The Bell Jar and the Making of the New Woman 104
      Conclusion: The Siege of Harlem and Its Commune 125
      Acknowledgments 139
      Notes 143
      Works Cited 163
      Index 185

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