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

Place (Philosophy) in literature. --- Difference (Psychology) in literature. --- Group identity in literature. --- Literature and society --- Social classes in literature. --- American literature --- History --- History and criticism.

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The book explores the coming-of-age fiction of two of the most critically acclaimed and frequently translated contemporary Chinese authors, Yu Hua and Su Tong; it is the first in-depth book-length treatise in English about the contemporary Chinese Bildungsroman . Although various individual contemporary Chinese novelists and individual works of Chinese fiction have previously been discussed under the rubric of the Bildungsroman , none of these efforts has approached the level of comprehensive and comparative analysis that this book brings to the genre and its social contexts in contemporary China. This book will pique the interests not only of scholars and students of Chinese and comparative literature, but also of historians and social scientists with an interest in the region.

Bildungsromans --- Chinese fiction --- Comparative literature --- Group identity in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Youth in literature. --- Bildungsroman --- History and criticism. --- Chinese and English. --- English and Chinese. --- Su, Tong, --- Yu, Hua,

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English literature --- English literature --- English literature --- Group identity in literature --- Irish Travellers (Nomadic people) in literature --- National characteristics, Irish, in literature --- Nomads in literature --- Irish authors --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- History and criticism

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French literature (outside France) --- Roman Switzerland --- Swiss literature (French) --- Literature and society --- Group identity in literature. --- National characteristics, Swiss, in literature --- Littérature suisse (française) --- Littérature et société --- Identité collective dans la littérature --- Suisses dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Litterature suisse (francaise) --- Litterature et societe --- Identite collective dans la litterature --- Suisses dans la litterature --- Letteratura svizzero francese --- National characteristics, Swiss, in literature. --- Kulturelle Identität. --- Schriftsteller. --- identità culturale --- Französische Schweiz. --- Littérature suisse (française) --- Littérature et société --- Identité collective dans la littérature --- Suisses dans la littérature --- Identità culturale --- Littérature --- Suisse --- Ecrivain