In this Book
- Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
- Series: The American Literatures Initiative
summary
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 characterized as miasmas of disease and moral ruin.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780813549811
Related ISBN(s)
9780813547855
MARC Record
OCLC
775302262
Pages
308
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No