Urban underworlds
Heise, Thomas, 1971-
Urban underworlds a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture / [electronic resource] : Thomas Heise. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xi, 292 p. :) ill. ; - American literatures initiative . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780813549811 0813549817
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Literature and society--History--United States--20th century.
Social classes in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic books.
PS228.S63 / H45 2011
810.9/355
Urban underworlds a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture / [electronic resource] : Thomas Heise. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (xi, 292 p. :) ill. ; - American literatures initiative . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780813549811 0813549817
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Literature and society--History--United States--20th century.
Social classes in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic books.
PS228.S63 / H45 2011
810.9/355