The Gentrification Plot: New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel by Heise, Thomas
The Gentrification Plot: New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel by Heise, Thomas

The Gentrification Plot: New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel

For decades, crime novelists have set their stories in New York City, a place long famed for...
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Author: Thomas Heise
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Language: English
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The Gentrification Plot: New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel by Heise, Thomas

The Gentrification Plot: New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel

CHF 67.88
The Gentrification Plot: New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel by Heise, Thomas

The Gentrification Plot: New York and the Postindustrial Crime Novel

CHF 67.88
Author: Thomas Heise
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
For decades, crime novelists have set their stories in New York City, a place long famed for decay, danger, and intrigue. What happens when the mean streets of the city are no longer quite so mean? In the wake of an unprecedented drop in crime in the 1990s and the real-estate development boom in the early 2000s, a new suspect is on the scene: gentrification.

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--that have been central to African American, Latinx, immigrant, and blue-collar life in the city. Heise reads works by Richard Price, Henry Chang, Gabriel Cohen, Reggie Nadelson, Ivy Pochoda, Grace Edwards, Ernesto Quiñonez, Wil Medearis, and Brian Platzer, tracking their representations of "broken-windows" policing, cultural erasure, racial conflict, class grievance, and displacement. Placing their novels in conversation with oral histories, urban planning, and policing theory, he explores crime fiction's contradictory and ambivalent portrayals of the postindustrial city's dizzying metamorphoses while underscoring the material conditions of the genre. A timely and powerful book, The Gentrification Plot reveals how today's crime writers narrate the death--or murder--of a place and a way of life.

Author: Thomas Heise
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 12/21/2021
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780231200196


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2022

About the Author
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).
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