TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heise,Thomas
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Urban underworlds: a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture 
T2  - American literatures initiative
SN  - 9780813549811
AV  - PS228.S63 H45 2011
U1  - 810.9/355 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Place (Philosophy) in literature
KW  - Difference (Psychology) in literature
KW  - Group identity in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social classes in literature
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813549811/
ER  -