Urban underworlds [electronic resource] : a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture / Thomas Heise.
Series: American literatures initiativePublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011.Description: xi, 292 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 810.9/355 22
- PS228.S63 H45 2011eb
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Includes 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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