| Description |
xi, 292 p. : ill. |
| Series |
American literatures initiative
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Social classes in literature.
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Group identity in literature.
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Difference (Psychology) in literature.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780813547848 (hardcover alk. paper) |
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9780813547855 (pbk. alk. paper) |
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9780813549811 (electronic bk.) |
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