Urban underworlds [electronic resource] : a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture / Thomas Heise.
Material type: TextSeries: American literatures initiativePublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011Description: xi, 292 p. : illISBN: 9780813549811 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Social classes in literature | Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Group identity in literature | Difference (Psychology) in literature | Place (Philosophy) in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/355 LOC classification: PS228.S63 | H45 2011Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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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