Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.