LEADER 03973nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910810221303321 005 20240516115002.0 010 $a1-283-86423-1 010 $a0-8135-4981-7 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813549811 035 $a(CKB)2550000000083922 035 $a(EBL)849491 035 $a(OCoLC)775302262 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606764 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11363427 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606764 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10582544 035 $a(PQKB)11170070 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC849491 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8221 035 $a(DE-B1597)530220 035 $a(OCoLC)1129154503 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813549811 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL849491 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10534357 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL417673 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000083922 100 $a20100218d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUrban underworlds $ea geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture /$fThomas Heise 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (306 p.) 225 0 $aAmerican literatures initiative 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-4784-9 311 $a0-8135-4785-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments -- 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. 330 $aUrban Underworlds is an exploration of city spaces, pathologized identities, lurid fears, and American literature. Surveying the 1890's to the 1990's, Thomas Heise 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. The quarantining of minority cultures helped to promote white, middle-class privilege. Following a diverse array of literary figures who differ with the assessment of the underworld as the space of the monstrous Other, Heise contends that it is a place where besieged and neglected communities are actively trying to take possession of their own neighborhoods. 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSocial classes in literature 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aGroup identity in literature 606 $aDifference (Psychology) in literature 606 $aPlace (Philosophy) in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSocial classes in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aGroup identity in literature. 615 0$aDifference (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aPlace (Philosophy) in literature. 676 $a810.9/355 700 $aHeise$b Thomas$f1971-$01680651 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810221303321 996 $aUrban underworlds$94049489 997 $aUNINA