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The City in American Literature and Culture
  • Edited by Kevin R. McNamara
  • Published online:
    06 August 2021
    Print publication:
    05 August 2021
  • The city's 'Americanness' has been disputed throughout US history. Pronounced dead in the late twentieth century, cities have enjoyed a renaissance in the twenty-first. Engaging the history of urban promise and struggle as represented in literature, film, and visual arts, and drawing on work in the social sciences, The City in American Literature and Culture examines the large and local forces that shape urban space and city life and the street-level activity that remakes culture and identities as it contests injustice and separation. The first two sections examine a range of city spaces and lives; the final section brings the city into conversation with Marxist geography, critical race studies, trauma theory, slow/systemic violence, security theory, posthumanism, and critical regionalism, with a coda on city literature and democracy.

  • Coda - City and Polis

  • from Theory in the City
  • Edited by Kevin R. McNamara, University of Houston-Clear Lake
  • Book:
    The City in American Literature and Culture
    Published online:
    06 August 2021
    Print publication:
    05 August 2021, pp 350-364

  • Summary

    This chapter asks what American literature can teach us about democracy as a political practice premised on disagreement and as an ethical orientation toward others. It contends that many literary texts and much literary criticism concerned with politics seeks to get “beyond” politics to a hoped-for state of “the people’s” solidarity and turns instead to texts that try to imagine the what the work of democratic engagement looks like and the capacities it requires.

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Kevin R. McNamara, University of Houston-Clear Lake
  • Book:
    The City in American Literature and Culture
    Published online:
    06 August 2021
    Print publication:
    05 August 2021, pp 1-20

  • Summary

    To set the context for the chapters to come, this introduction focuses on two items. First, it discusses the arc from postwar urban crisis and predictions of the posturban future that ran through the 1990s to the city’s apparent resurgence and the cultural and political backlash that are the volume’s occasion. It then turns to the antiurban theme that persisted in American literary history and American Studies through much of the twentieth century to remind us that disdain for the city, as site and symbol of modernity, has a history across the political spectrum.

  • A Model for the Economic Evaluation of Plantation Biomass Production for Co-firing with Coal in Electricity Production

  • Sara Nienow, Kevin T. McNamara, Andrew R. Gillespie, Paul V. Preckel
  • Journal:
    Agricultural and Resource Economics Review / Volume 28 / Issue 1 / April 1999
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 September 2016, pp. 106-117

  • Public and private electric utilities are considering co-firing biomass with coal as a strategy to reduce the levels of CO2, SO2 and NOx in stack emissions, as well as a response to state legislative mandates requiring the use of renewable fuels. This analysis examines the conditions under which biomass co-firing is economically feasible for utilities and woody biomass producers and describes additional environmental and community benefits associated with biomass use. This paper presents a case study of woody biomass production and co-firing at the Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) Michigan City Unit No. 12 power plant. A Salix (willow) production budget was created to assess the feasibility of plantation tree production to supply biomass to the utility for fuel blending. A GAMS model was developed to examine the optimal co-firing blend of coal and biomass while minimizing variable cost, including the cost of ash disposal and material procurement costs. The model is constrained by the levels of pollution produced. This model is used to examine situations where coal is the primary fuel and waste wood, willow trees, or both are available for fuel blending. Capital costs for co-firing were estimated outside of the model and are incorporated into the total cost of co-firing. The results indicate that under certain circumstances it is cost-effective for the power plant to co-fire biomass. Sensitivity analysis is used to test biomass price sensitivity and explores the effects of potential public policies on co-firing.

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