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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Heise, Thomas, 1971-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
Series:	American literatures initiative
Subjects:	Place (Philosophy) in literature. Difference (Psychology) in literature. Group identity in literature. Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century. Social classes in literature. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.