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  1. Urban underworlds
    a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture
    Author: Heise, Thomas
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Rutgers Univ. Press, New Brunswick, NJ

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    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Philosophicum, Standort Anglistik/ Amerikanistik
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    L/A H 55 1
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    Universität Marburg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    001 HU 1691 H473
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780813547848; 9780813547855; 0813547849; 0813547857
    RVK Categories: HU 1114 ; HU 1691 ; HU 1819
    Series: American literatures initiative
    American studies. literary studies
    Subjects: Literatur; Stadt <Motiv>; Randgruppe <Motiv>; Minderheit <Motiv>
    Scope: XI, 292 S., Ill.
  2. Urban underworlds
    a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture
    Author: Heise, Thomas
    Published: ©2011
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J.

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0813547849; 0813547857; 0813549817; 9780813547855; 9780813549811
    RVK Categories: HU 1114 ; HU 1691 ; HU 1819
    Subjects: Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Geschichte; Literatur; American literature; Social classes in literature; Literature and society; Group identity in literature; Difference (Psychology) in literature; Place (Philosophy) in literature; Literatur; Randgruppe <Motiv>; Stadt <Motiv>; Minderheit <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 292 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    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

    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
  3. Urban underworlds
    a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture
    Author: Heise, Thomas
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Rutgers Univ. Press, New Brunswick, N.J. [u.a.]