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New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2011

1 online resource (xi, 292 p.) : ill

ISBN 9780813549811 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780813547848 (hardcover alk. paper)

ISBN 9780813547855 (pbk. alk. paper)

American literatures initiative

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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