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Rutgers University Press
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Subjects
Literature and society, Social classes in literature, Difference (Psychology) in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Group identity in literature, History, Place (Philosophy) in literature, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Place (philosophy) in literature
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United States
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20th century

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New Brunswick, N.J
Series
American literatures initiative

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810.9/355
Library of Congress
PS228.S63 H45 2011, PS228.S63H45 2011

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p. cm.

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OL24068948M
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9780813547848, 9780813547855
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2010004657
OCLC/WorldCat
527702683

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