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Paperback Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture Book
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ISBN: 0813547857

ISBN13: 9780813547855

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

(Part of the The American Literatures Initiative Series)

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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...

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