Urban underworlds : a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture /
Heise, Thomas,1971-
American Literatures Initiative.
New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press,
c2011.
"American Literatures Initiative"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
American literature
Social classes in literature.
Literature and society
Group identity in literature.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.