Urban underworlds : a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture / Thomas Heise.

Author/creator Heise, Thomas, 1971-
Other author American Literatures Initiative.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
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 literature.

SeriesAmerican literatures initiative
Contents 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.
General note"American Literatures Initiative"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010004657
ISBN9780813547848 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0813547849 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813547855 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0813547857 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS228.S63 H45 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold