Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture - Couverture souple

Heise, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0813547857 ISBN 13 : 9780813547855

Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Urban Underworlds is an exploration of city spaces, pathologized identities, lurid fears, and American literature. Surveying the 1890s to the 1990s, Thomas Heise 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.

The quarantining of minority cultures helped to promote white, middle-class privilege. Following a diverse array of literary figures who differ with the assessment of the underworld as the space of the monstrous Other, Heise contends that it is a place where besieged and neglected communities are actively trying to take possession of their own neighborhoods.

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À propos de l'auteur

THOMAS HEISE is an assistant professor of English at McGill University and the author of Horror Vacui: Poems.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rutgers University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0813547857
• ISBN 13: 9780813547855
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible