Urban Underworlds : A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture /
Urban Underworlds is an exploration of city spaces, pathologized identities, lurid fears, and American literature. Surveying one hundred years of history, and fusing sociology, urban planning, and criminology with literary and cultural studies, it chronicles how and why marginalized populations-immi...
| Основен автор: | Heise, Thomas, 1971- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
℗♭2011.
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| Серия: |
American literatures initiative
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Urban Underworlds : A Geography of Twentieth-century American Literature and Culture. |
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.