October cities the redevelopment of urban literature - Rotella, Carlo, 1964- (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1998)
Exposition: the story of decline -- The old neighborhood: industrial Chicago and its literatures -- Closing time: The man with the golden arm -- After the end: the story of decline as act one -- Exposition: South Street and the neighborhood novel -- Urban village and black metropolis: John Fury and South Street -- The literature of postindustrial South Street -- Exposition: that separate world -- Violence, the second ghetto, and the logic of urban crisis -- Checkpoint Frederick Douglass: Warren Miller and the boundaries of the ghetto -- The box of groceries and the omnibus tour: Manchild in the promised land -- The war of position.
Based on the author's thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-352) and index.
Print version record.
English.
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Keywords: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; City and town life in literature; Cities and towns in literature; Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique; Vie urbaine dans la littérature.; LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American literature; Cities and towns in literature; City and town life in literature; English; Languages & Literatures; American Literature; 1900-1999; Criticism, interpretation, etc