Gentrification Plot - New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Heise, Heise Thomas
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.2021
• EAN: 9780231200196
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20019-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Literature Now
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Mystery & Detective, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: from c 2000, literary criticism; mystery and detective