Forgery
By: Amira Hanafi ; introduction by Stephen Lapthisophon
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Green Lantern Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9781450742122
Subjects: Steel forgings industry; Fiction; Immigrants
Notes: "Collaged from language collected using the obscure keyword "Finkl"--Obituaries, case histories, old Chicago legends, gossip columns, political speeches and online posts--FORGERY is a lyrical essay on industrial and personal dislocation--a strange choreography of urban conquest and collapse--centered on a 130-year-old Chicago steel forge. Founded in 1879 by German immigrant Anton Finkl, A. Finkl & Sons Co. still operates today on Chicago's Near North Side. Last vestige of an industrial era, the company produces die forgings noisily and with a good deal of dirty emissions alongside one of the city's more affluent neighborhoods, where spas and plastic surgeons, shops for handmade cosmetics and luxury chocolates extend off one of the busiest commercial corridors in Chicago"--Author's website.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-76).
Table of contents: title: The forge; title: The Clybourne experiment; title: A Finkl; title: Mary Jane; title: Homes. 1516 N Orchard/1531 N Clybourn; title: 1108 N Sedgwick; title: 546 N Wells; title: 800 Block of N Segwick; title: 1833 N Fremont; title: 910 W Willow; title: Girl X.