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The naturalistic inner-city novel in America : encounters with the fat man
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ISBN: 0585323569 9780585323565 1570030464 Year: 1995 Publisher: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press,

The naturalistic inner-city novel in American encounters with the fat man
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ISBN: 1570030464 Year: 1995 Publisher: Columbia University of South Carolina Press


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Les bas-fonds : histoire d'un imaginaire
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ISBN: 2021148254 202110463X Year: 2013 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Seuil

Violence in the contemporary American novel : an end to innocence
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ISBN: 1570033285 Year: 2000 Publisher: Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press,


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Vice, crime and poverty
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ISBN: 9780231547260 0231547269 9780231187428 0231187424 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York

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Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates-part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurking in the mirror that we hold up to our society, they are our counterparts and our doubles, repelling us and yet offering the tantalizing promise of escape. Although these images testify to undeniable social realities, the sordid lower depths make up a symbolic and social imaginary that reflects our fears and anxieties-as well as our desires.In Vice, Crime, and Poverty, Dominique Kalifa traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. He examines how the myth of the lower depths came into being in nineteenth-century Europe, as biblical figures and Christian traditions were adapted for a world turned upside-down by the era of industrialization, democratization, and mass culture. From the Parisian demimonde to Victorian squalor, from the slums of New York to the sewers of Buenos Aires, Kalifa deciphers the making of an image that has cast an enduring spell on its audience. While the social conditions that created that underworld have changed, Vice, Crime, and Poverty shows that, from social-scientific ideas of the underclass to contemporary cinema and steampunk culture, its shadows continue to haunt us.


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Encyclopedia of hip hop literature
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ISBN: 9780313343896 Year: 2009 Publisher: Westport London : Greenwood Press,

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Hip Hop literature, also known as urban fiction or street lit, is a type of writing evocative of the harsh realities of life in the inner city. Beginning with seminal works by such writers as Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim and culminating in contemporary fiction, autobiography, and poetry, Hip Hop literature is exerting the same kind of influence as Hip Hop music, fashion, and culture. Through more than 180 alphabetically arranged entries, this encyclopedia surveys the world of Hip Hop literature and places it in its social and cultural contexts. Entries cite works for further reading, and a bibliography concludes the volume. Coverage includes authors, genres, and works, as well as on the musical artists, fashion designers, directors, and other figures who make up the context of Hip Hop literature. Entries cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia concludes with a selected, general bibliography. Students in literature classes will value this guide to an increasingly popular body of literature, while students in social studies classes will welcome its illumination of American cultural diversity.


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Ghetto voices in contemporary German culture : textscapes, filmscapes, soundscapes
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ISBN: 1283665891 157113834X 1571135448 Year: 2012 Publisher: Rochester, NY : Camden House,

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Accounts of how Germany has changed since unification often portray the Berlin Republic as a new Germany that has left the Nazi past and Cold War division behind and entered the new millennium as a peaceful, worldly, and cautiously proud nation. Closer inspection, however, reveals tensions between such views and the realities of a country that continues to struggle with racism, provincialism, and fear of the perceived Other. Mainstream media foster such fears by describing violence in ghetto schools, failed integration, and the loss of society's core values. The city emerges as a key site not only of ethnic and political tension but of social change. Maria Stehle illuminates these tensions and transformations by following the metaphor of the ghetto in literary works from the 1990s by Feridun Zaimoglu, in German ghettocentric films from the late 1990s and the early twenty-first century, and in hip-hop and rap music of the same periods. In their representations of ghettos, authors, filmmakers, musicians, and performers redefine and challenge provincialism and nationalism and employ transcultural frameworks for their diverging political agendas. By contextualizing these discussions within social and political developments, this study illuminates the complexities that define Germany today for scholars and students across the disciplines of German, European, cultural, urban, and media studies. Maria Stehle is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.


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Les bas-fonds : histoire d'un imaginaire
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ISBN: 9782020967624 2020967626 Year: 2013 Publisher: Paris : Seuil,

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History of civilization --- History of Europe --- anno 1800-1899 --- Literature --- Urban poor --- Marginality, Social. --- Marginality, Social, in literature. --- Criminals in literature. --- Deviant behavior. --- Deviant behavior in literature. --- Littérature --- Pauvres en milieu urbain --- Marginalité --- Marginalité dans la littérature --- Criminels dans la littérature --- Déviance --- Déviance dans la littérature --- Themes, motives --- History --- Thèmes, motifs --- Histoire --- Marginality, Social --- Marginality, Social, in literature --- Criminals --- Criminals in literature --- Inner cities --- Crime --- Inner cities in literature --- Social representations --- Deviant behavior in literature --- Quartiers pauvres --- Pègre --- Représentations sociales --- Anthropologie --- Dans la littérature --- Représentations sociales. --- Anthropologie. --- Dans la littérature. --- Littérature --- Marginalité --- Marginalité dans la littérature --- Criminels dans la littérature --- Déviance --- Déviance dans la littérature --- Thèmes, motifs --- City dwellers --- Poor --- Representations, Social --- Social perception --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Central cities --- Ghettos, Inner city --- Inner city ghettos --- Inner city problems --- Zones of transitions --- Cities and towns --- Urban cores --- Crime and criminals --- Delinquents --- Offenders --- Persons --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminology --- Themes, motives. --- Urban poor - History --- Criminals - History --- Inner cities - History --- Crime - History

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