Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tour guides and explorers
  • The fat man finds his voice, part 1 : Michael Gold's Jews without money
  • The fat man finds his voice, part 2 : Richard Wright's Native son
  • Encountering the urban grotesque : Nelson Algren's Man with the golden arm
  • The game of mum as theme and narrative technique in Hubert Selby's Last exit to Brooklyn
  • "Hey, world" : John Rechy's City of night
  • "Miss Oates" and the naturalistic imagination : Joyce Carol Oates's Them
  • Conclusion : the fat man revealed.