New York: Cradle of America\u2019s Cultural Plurality<\/i> offers a variety of perspectives on New York City literature, art, and music by a team of European American Studies scholars. Beginning with the myths of New York, it continues to explore New York\u2019s topos from the point of displaced southerners, ethnic minorities (Jewish, Afro-American, Czech), gender (feminist, gay), avant-garde artists, and its indigenous music (jazz, vaudeville, the musical). New York\u2019s hodgepodge of material and cultural wealth, the accumulation of peoples from all over the globe, has created fascinating patterns of democratic cooperation, exchange, and tolerance\u2014well as friction and conflict. Its dramatic metropolitan structure and cosmopolitan diversity provoke a wide range of responses in newcomers (exiles and immigrants) and native New Yorkers alike, first challenging one\u2019s provincialism and then marking one for life. New York City continues to enthrall, enchant and appall. It has always been a testing ground for architectural, cultural, financial, political and social experiments which have affected not only the city, but the nation and the whole wide world.<\/p>\n
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Contents<\/b><\/p>\n
Preface
\n\u201cNew York, New York\u201d: A Magic Incantation
\nJosef Ja\u0159ab<\/p>\n
Introduction
\nMatthew Sweney<\/p>\n
Gotham: The Founding Myths of New York
\nMichal Peprn\u00edk<\/p>\n
A Place of Growing Up, or Getting Lost: New York and Southern Writers
\nMarcel Arbeit<\/p>\n
The Lower East Side: Literary Topos of Jewish American Immigrant Fiction
\nStanislav Kol\u00e1\u0159<\/p>\n
Greenwich Village\u2013Harlem: A Round Trip
\nJosef Ja\u0159ab<\/p>\n
Haunted Harlem: The Urban Uncanny in Toni Morrison\u2019s Jazz
\nPetra Eckhard<\/p>\n
Eastern European or Extra Terrestrial: Post-Socialist Topics in New York
\nSladja Blazan<\/p>\n
Escape from New York in Post-Stonewall Gay Fiction
\nRoman Tru\u0161n\u00edk<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the Song of the Vertical Field\u201d: New York City as an Abstraction of the Body
\nJulia Meier<\/p>\n
New York Vaudeville: Celebrating the City in the Musicals of Comden and Green
\nRobert Lewis<\/p>\n
September 11 and the Other: Novelists Respond
\nKristiaan Versluys<\/p>\n
New York in Czech Literature
\nJaroslav Peprn\u00edk<\/p>\n
Palack\u00fd University Olomouc
\n1st ed., 2007, paperback
\nISBN 978-80-244-1843-8.<\/p>\n
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