Thomas Heise

Urban Underworlds

A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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-immigrant Americans in the Lower East Side, gays and lesbians in Greenwich Village and downtown Los Angeles, the black underclass in Harlem and Chicago, and the new urban poor dispersed across American cities-have been selectively targeted as "urban underworlds" and their neighborhoods characterized as miasmas of disease and moral ruin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780813547855
• ISBN-10: 0813547857
• Artikelnr.: 30690889

Autorenporträt

THOMAS HEISE is an assistant professor of English at McGill University and the author of Horror Vacui: Poems.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements    x 
An Overview and an Underview: Uneven Development and the Social Production
of American Underworlds   1
1. Going Down: Narratives of Slumming in the Ethnic Underworlds of Lower
New York, 1890s-1910s              30
2. Degenerate Sex and the City: The Underworlds of New York and Paris in
the Work of Djuna Barnes and Claude Mckay, 1910s-1930s   77
3. The Black Underground: Urban Riots, the Black Underclass, and the Work
of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison 1940s-1950s                 127
4. Wasted Dreams: John Rechy, Thomas Pynchon, and the Underworlds of Los
Angeles, 1960s                      169
5. White Spaces and Urban Ruins: Postmodern Geographies in Don DeLillo's
Underworld, 1950s-1990s         213
Notes                          255
Index                           277