Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. An Overview and an Underview: Uneven Development and the Social Production of American Underworlds 1
5. 1. Going Down: Narratives of Slumming in the Ethnic Underworlds of Lower New York, 1890s–1910s 30
6. 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
7. 3. The Black Underground: Urban Riots, the Black Underclass, and the Work of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, 1940s–1950s 127
8. 4. Wasted Dreams: John Rechy, Thomas Pynchon, and the Underworlds of Los Angeles, 1960s 169
9. 5. White Spaces and Urban Ruins: Postmodern Geographies in Don DeLillo’s Underworld, 1950s –1990s 213
10. Notes 255
11. Index 277