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001 2010004657
003 DLC
005 20141127074928.0
008 100218s2011 njua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010004657
020 $a9780813547848 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9780813547855 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS228.S63$bH45 2011
082 00 $a810.9/355$222
100 1 $aHeise, Thomas,$d1971-
245 10 $aUrban underworlds :$ba geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture /$cThomas Heise.
260 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. :$bRutgers University Press,$cc2011.
300 $axi, 292 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aAmerican literatures initiative
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aAcknowledgments -- 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.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSocial classes in literature.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aGroup identity in literature.
650 0 $aDifference (Psychology) in literature.
650 0 $aPlace (Philosophy) in literature.