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Detroit and Paris, Paris as Detroit

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Literature and the Peripheral City

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On 18 July 2013, Dave Bing, Democrat mayor of Detroit, officially filed for Detroit’s bankruptcy, on the advice of its bankruptcy lawyer, Kevin Orr, who had been put in charge by Michigan’s Republican governor, Rick Snyder. Orr wanted to sell off the contents of the Detroit Institute of Arts, founded in 1885, as the city’s assets. Can a city be peripheral? Perhaps one which has lost its motor-industry, which gave it its twentieth-century character, can; General Motors and Chrysler both filed for bankruptcy in 2009. In 1920, Detroit was America’s fourth most populous city, after New York, Chicago and Philadelphia: Motown’s auto industry then accounted for 47 per cent of the workforce. At its peak, its population was over two million; now it is 713,000.

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  1. University of Helsinki, Finland

    Lieven Ameel (Researcher) (Researcher)

  2. Åbo Akademi University, Finland

    Jason Finch (Lecturer in English Literature) (Lecturer in English Literature)

  3. University of Tampere, Finland

    Markku Salmela (University Lecturer in English Literature) (University Lecturer in English Literature)

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Tambling, J. (2015). Detroit and Paris, Paris as Detroit. In: Ameel, L., Finch, J., Salmela, M. (eds) Literature and the Peripheral City. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137492883_2

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