Urban underworlds : a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture / / Thomas Heise.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American literatures initiative
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| Physical Description: | xi, 292 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. An overview and an underview: Uneven development and the social production of American underworlds
- Going down: Narratives of slumming in the ethnic underworlds of lower New York, 1890s-1910s
- Degenerate "Sex and the City": The underworlds of New York and Paris in the work of Djuna Barnes and Claude McKay, 1910s-1930s
- The black underground: Urban riots, the black underclass, and the work of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, 1940s-1950s
- Wasted dreams: John Rechy, Thomas Pynchon, and the underworlds of Los Angeles, 1960s
- White spaces and urban ruins: Postmodern geographies in Don DeLillo's underworld, 1950s-1990s.