Urban underworlds a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture /
| Основен автор: | Heise, Thomas, 1971- |
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| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
c2011.
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| Серия: |
American literatures initiative
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| Онлайн достъп: |
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
Съдържание:
- 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.