Urban underworlds a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture /
Enregistré dans:
| Auteur principal: | |
|---|---|
| Collectivité auteur: | |
| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | anglais |
| Publié: |
New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
c2011.
|
| Collection: | American literatures initiative
|
| Sujets: | |
| Accès en ligne: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
| Tags: |
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
|
Table des matières:
- 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.