October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature

by Carlo Rotella

Book Overview

Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. The flourishing industry, culture, and literature that had placed prewar Chicago at center stage in American life were entering a time of crisis. The middle class and economic opportunity were leaving the inner city, and Black Southerners arriving in Chicago found themselves increasingly estranged from the nation's economic and cultural resources. For Algren,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520211448
• ISBN13: 9780520211445
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"