Urban Underworlds : a Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture, Thomas Heise

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Contents: 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

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