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Thomas Heise
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- 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
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- 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
