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Tables of Contents for Modernity and Metropolis
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction: Beginnings in Endings
1
1
Modernity and metropolis
1
10
Reflexivity
11
5
Community
16
7
A reflexive aesthetic
23
7
American Modernists in Modern London
30
25
Ezra Pound: Vortex South Kensington
31
7
Iris Barry: life and contacts
38
7
T.S. Eliot: between lives
45
10
Modernism Deferred: Harlem Montage
55
20
Blues on 1814 N. Street, NW Washington
55
2
Renaissance jazz
57
8
Modernisms: Langston Hughes and Melvin B. Tolson
65
10
Inside Ethnicity: Suburban Outlooks
75
21
Black Britishness
75
3
A little identity crisis: Hanif Kureishi
78
8
Real magic: Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Bernadine Evaristo
86
10
Re-imagining London
96
24
Vortex Spitalfields: Iain Sinclair and Syed Manzarul Islam
97
8
The problem of London: Patrick Keiller
105
4
Drifting, disappearing: Iain Sinclair and Rachel Lichtenstein
109
6
Untold stories: Janet Cardiff
115
5
`Hymn to the Great People's Republic of Brooklyn'
120
21
Place and identity
122
5
Paul Auster: time for stories
127
5
Dialogic community: Paul Auster and Wayne Wang
132
9
`Witness to my times': Sarah Schulman and the Lower East Side
141
21
Neighbourhoods
141
4
Fictions of lesbian community
145
8
The power of straight thinking
153
4
UnAmerican activity
157
5
In the Matrix: East West Encounters
162
24
Turning the globe
162
6
`The street finds its own use for things': Edward Yang and William Gibson
168
11
Starting over: Wong Kar-Wai and Lawrence Chua
179
7
Coda: Postmetropolis and the Art of Fabrication
186
13
Simcity and the shanty town
189
3
`A poor man is like a dog'. Latife Tekin and John Berger
192
7
Notes
199
7
Bibliography
206
13
Index
219