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Urban underworlds : a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture
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- Creator
- Thomas Heise
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- English
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- Publication
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- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813547855, 0813547849, 0813547857, 9781283864237, 9780813549811, 1283864231, 9780813547848, 0813549817
- OCLC
- on1129154503, ocn527702683, ocn775302262
- "American Literatures Initiative"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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