Urban underworlds
Subtitle: a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture
By: Thomas Heise.
Series: American literatures initiative
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780813547848; 9780813547855
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction.  An overview and an underview:  Uneven development and the social production of American underworlds; title: Going down:  Narratives of slumming in the ethnic underworlds of lower New York, 1890s-1910s; title: Degenerate "Sex and the City":  The underworlds of New York and Paris in the work of Djuna Barnes and Claude McKay, 1910s-1930s; title: The black underground:  Urban riots, the black underclass, and the work of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, 1940s-1950s; title: Wasted dreams:  John Rechy, Thomas Pynchon, and the underworlds of Los Angeles, 1960s; title: White spaces and urban ruins:  Postmodern geographies in Don DeLillo's underworld, 1950s-1990s.