Urban cultures of/in the United States
Subtitle: interdisciplinary perspectives
By: Andrea Carosso (ed.).
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9783034300827
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: How the other half eats: the cultural significance of foodways in an urban context as reflected in the writings of Jewish American women, 1890-1939 / Danuta Romaniuk; title: W.E.B. Du Bois and the black elite from the Philadelphia Negro to talented tenth / Luigi Stefanizzi; title: Cities, two fairgrounds: Chicago's 1893 World Columbians Exposition and Turin's 1911 International Exposition / Bahar Gursel; title: From West Bengal to New York: the global novels of Jhumpa Lahiri and Kiran Desai / Carmen Concilio; title: Self-perception while walking in the city in Charles Johnson's faith and the good thing / Yomna Saber; title: Cooking up mystery: contemporary mystery novels and American cities / Sonia Di Loreto; title: Friend of God: megachurches and the new frontiers of the American exurb / Andrea Carosso.