An edition of Urban underworlds: a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture
(2011)
Urban underworlds
a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture
by Thomas Heise
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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 literaturePlaces
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Urban underworlds: a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture
2011, Rutgers University Press
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0813547849 9780813547848
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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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