Urban underworlds a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heise, Thomas, 1971-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.
Series:American literatures initiative
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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.