Preferred Citation: Rotella, Carlo. October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature. Berkeley, Calif London:  University of California Press,  c1998 1998. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8m3nb5g7/


 

INDEX


353

A

Aaron, Daniel, 294

Abrahams, Roger, 122 , 182 -83

Addams, Jane, 20 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 98 , 101

Ade, George, 34

Aldridge, John, 322

Alger, Horatio, 294

Algren, Nelson (See also Chicago: City on the Make; Man with the Golden Arm, The ), 1 , 7 , 10 , 38 , 94 , 233 , 317 , 320 , 327 n8;

and blues, 95 -96;

and Brooks, 97 -102;

and Claude Brown, 313 , 316 , 319 -23, 350 n26;

career of, 19 -20, 92 , 316 -23;

and Chicago literary tradition, 19 -20, 33 -39, 47 -52, 58 , 68 -69, 79 -80, 93 -94, 96 -98, 317 -19;

as Chicago realist, 38 , 48 , 50 -52, 317 -19;

and Chicago School, 50 -51, 330 n29;

as cultural critic, 84 -86;

and Daley, 102 , 107 ;

The Devil's Stocking,320 -23;

and Dybek, 108 -15, 323 ;

as historical figure, 233 ;

and Liebling, 34 -35;

and literature of delinquency, 244 , 249 ;

and Milwaukee Avenue corridor, 19 , 41 -44, 62 -65, 66 ;

as neighborhood novelist, 49 -50, 322 ;

The Neon Wilderness,19 , 63 ;

Never Come Morning,19 , 49 -50, 63 , 76 , 85 , 108 , 244 ;

Notes from a Sea Diary,316 -19;

"Ode to Lower Finksville," 102 -3, 105 ;

and postindustrial transformation, 38 -39, 58 , 91 -94, 107 -8, 112 -15, 201 , 317 , 319 , 320 , 322 ;

reception of, 11 -12, 19 , 34 -35, 58 -62, 316 -19, 322 ;

and Royko, 102 -8, 335 n24;

and Schulberg, 311 , 317 , 318 ;

in Shay, 41 -44, 62 ;

as social critic, 20 -21, 58 -59;

Somebody in Boots,19 , 76 , 85 , 244 , 320 ;

and South Street literature, 123 , 124 , 126 , 128 , 129 , 142 , 146 , 148 , 149 , 167 , 180 , 183 , 184 , 187 -88, 190 -91, 192 , 198 ;

and urban crisis, 316 , 319 ;

A Walk on the Wild Side , 59 , 320 ;

as writer of decline narratives, 20 -26, 28 , 30 , 92 , 114 , 313 , 317 , 350 n26

Ali, Muhammad (Cassius Clay), 197 -98, 224 , 320 , 348 n19, 349 n20

Allende, Isabel, 112

Anderson, Sherwood, 32 , 34 , 48 , 49 , 51

Asturias, Miguel Angel, 112

authorial persona, 10 .

See also under individual authors

B

Bacon, Edmund, 7 , 136 , 140

Baldwin, James, 144 , 171 , 211 , 253 , 260 , 267 , 293 , 294 , 295 , 297 , 312

Balliett, Whitney, 294

Banfield, Edward, 56 , 300 , 306

Baraka, Amiri. See Leroi Jones

Barnicle, Mike, 106

Beauregard, Robert, 26 , 215 , 216 , 275

Bell, Daniel, 301 , 302

Bellow, Saul, 41 , 93 , 121 , 319 , 334 n7;

Herzog, 319

Bethune, Mary McLeod, 278

Blackboard Jungle, The (film), 243 , 244


354

Black Like Me,297

Black Metropolis, 46 ;

in New York, 222 , 224 ;

in Philadelphia, 134 -35

Black Muslims, 234 , 257 , 276 , 278 -81, 283 -86, 288 -89, 290 , 292 , 307

Black Panthers, 283 , 307

Blackstone Rangers, 242 , 244

Blake, William, 110 , 114

blues, 95 -96, 111 , 156 , 160 , 222

Boggs, Grace, 210 , 257

Boggs, James, 210 , 257

Bradley, David (See also South Street [Bradley]), 7 , 11 , 121 , 150 , 313 ;

career of, 122 -23, 170 , 172 ;

The Chaneysville Incident,170

Brautigan, Richard: Trout Fishing in America,61

Bremer, Sidney, 45

Breslin, Jimmy, 190 , 234

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 7 , 93 , 94 , 97 -102, 114 , 115 , 233 , 244 , 313 , 327 n8;

AnnieAllen, 97 , 99 , 100 - 102 ;

A Street in Bronzeville,97 , 100

Brown, Claude (See also Manchild in the Promised Land ), 11 , 237 , 271 -72, 273 , 291 , 313 ;

andAlgren, 313 , 316 , 319 -23, 350 n26;

authorial persona of, 10 , 212 , 217 , 269 -70, 286 -87, 291 -92, 305 , 306 -8;

career of, 210 -12, 223 , 273 , 349 n20;

and Carter, 320 -21;

and Chicago neighborhood novelists, 299 , 323 ;

Children of Ham,273 ;

and Dissent,223 , 300 -308;

and leftist intellectuals, 299 -308;

"Manchild in Harlem," 349 n20, 351 n20;

and Miller, 205 , 210 -13, 224 , 277 , 288 , 289 , 293 , 294 -96, 299 , 304 -306, 307 , 308 -10;

in New York Herald-Tribune,236 , 297 -99;

as tour guide, 296 -300, 305 ;

and urban crisis, 12 -13, 209 -13, 217 , 270 -72, 277 , 291 -92, 308 ;

as urban intellectual, 7 , 210 , 212 -13, 224 , 270 -72, 302 -3, 306 -8, 315 -16

(See also under Manchild in the Promised Land); and Wright, 1 -2, 323 ;

as writer of decline narratives, 99 , 350 n26, 351 n20

Brown, Denise Scott, 137 , 139 , 151 , 314

Brown, H. Rap, 210

Brown, Wenzell, 243

Buck, Pearl, 61

Burgess, Ernest, 51

C

Caen, Herb, 190

Caldwell, Erskine, 61

Capote, Truman, 143 , 144

Carmichael, Stokely (Kwame Ture), 210 ;

Black Power216 , 251

Carpentier, Alejio, 112

Carson, Sonny, 210 , 283

Carter, Rubin "Hurricane": The Sixteenth Round,320 -21, 323

Cather, Willa, 3 , 34 , 49 , 51

Catholicism, 110 , 112 , 113 , 143 , 144

Cayton, Horace, 98 , 330 n29

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 51 , 98

Chicago: decline narratives about, 19 -39, 104 -5, 112 -15, 301 , 327 n8;

industrial urbanism in, 44 -47;

literary tradition of, 33 -38, 47 -52, 58 -62, 91 -94, 114 -15;

postindustrial transformation of, 40 -44, 52 -58

Chicago realism, 4 , 38 , 44 , 48 -52, 58 -62, 317 -19

Chicago: City on the Make (Algren), 19 ;

Chicago literary tradition in, 35 -38, 94 , 98 , 99 ;

city without artists in, 95 ;

as decline narrative, 20 -25, 30 , 35 -38, 75 , 114 ;

El in, 24 -25, 39 , 89 ;

historical imagination of, 67 , 89 ;

and Man with the Golden Arm,67 , 69 , 70 , 75 , 88 -90;

and Notes from a Sea Diary,319 ;

October City in, 24 -25, 36 , 37 , 323 -24;

on Richard Wright, 96 -97

Chicago School of sociology, 7 -8, 38 , 42 , 50 -51, 60 -61, 106 , 122 , 182 , 225 , 241 -42, 243 , 244 , 325 n2, 330 n29

Chicora, 25 , 61

Churchill, Winston, 233

City Across the River (film), 243

city of fact, 3

city of feeling, 3

Clark, Kenneth, 8 , 210 , 232 , 295 , 308 ;

Dark Ghetto,12 , 210 , 23 , 250 , 270 , 273 -76, 294 , 312

Clarke, Gerald, 143

Clarke, Shirley, 255

Cleaver, Eldridge, 210 , 257 , 270

Cloward, Richard, 8 , 242

Cobb, Randall "Tex," 170

Cohen, Albert, 8 , 242 , 243 , 246 , 258 , 277 , 278

Coltrane, John, 112

Connection, The,255

Conroy, Jack, 149

Cool World, The (film), 234 , 255

Cool World, The (Miller), 9 , 207 -8, 212 , 224 -25, 239 , 240 , 245 -51, 267 -68, 299 , 301 , 303 , 309 ;

reception of, 8 , 252 -55, 264 -68

Cowley, Malcolm, 19

Crane, Stephen, 254

crime. See violence

D

Daley, Richard J., 7 , 41 , 46 , 52 -53, 102 -3, 106 -10, 112 , 251 , 347 n5

Daniels, Guy, 293


355

Davis, Angela, 210

Day, Dorothy, 301 , 302

de Beauvoir, Simone, 41 , 184

Debs, Eugene, 30

decline, narratives of: about Chicago, 19 -39, 73 -79, 88 -90, 104 -5, 112 -15, 301 , 327 n8;

about New York, 99 , 221 , 301 -2, 350 n26, 351 n20;

about Philadelphia, 130 , 145 -50, 186 -93, 197 -98

de Jongh, James, 217

delinquency, juvenile: in The Cool World,245 -51;

as credential, 225 , 270 -72, 27780, 288 , 306 -8;

literature of, 240 -45;

n Manchild in the Promised Land,277 -80, 288 ;

in South Street (Smith), 158 -59;

and urban crisis, 224 -28, 270 -72

Dell, Floyd, 32 , 34 , 51

De Roo, Edward, 243

Devil's Pocket, 2 , 170 -71, 186

Dexter, Pete, 2 , 7 , 11 , 121 , 123 , 185 -86, 314 ;

career of, 170 -72;

God's Pocket,2 , 120 , 125 -30, 140 , 148 , 169 -70, 171 , 185 -93

Diaz, Eileen, 301 , 302

Dickens, Charles, 58 , 110 , 114

Dilworth, Richardson, 131

Dissent,7 , 206 , 223 , 300 -308

Dos Passos, John, 313

Dostoevsky, Fedor, 51 , 58 , 98 , 158

Douglass, Frederick, 267 , 312

Drake, St. Clair, 98 , 330 n29

Dreiser, Theodore, 20 , 30 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 48 , 49 , 68 , 92 , 96 , 143 , 254 ;

Sister Carrie,13 , 43 , 47 , 51 , 65 , 67 , 69 , 79 -90, 98 , 148

Drew, Bettina, 58 -59

Du Bois, W.E.B., 122

Dunmeyer, Arthur, 271

Dunne, Finley Peter, 34

Dunphy, Jack, 7 , 121 , 144 , 233 , 313 ;

career of, 122 , 142 , 143 , 170 ;

influences on, 125 -26, 143 , 149 , 200 ;

John Fury, 120 , 124 , 126 , 128 , 130 , 140 , 142 , 145 -50, 150 , 166 , 169 , 178 , 181 , 188 , 189 , 194 , 196

Dybek, Stuart, 7 , 94 , 198 , 314 , 323 ;

"Blight," 108 -5, 290

Dylan, Bob, 320

E

Eastland, 25 , 61

Einstein, Albert, 278

Ellison, Harlan, 243

Ellison, Ralph, 7 , 121 , 223 , 224 , 291 , 294 , 297 ;

Invisible Man,126 , 236 -37, 290

Ellson, Hal, 243

Epstein, Jason, 218 -19

Erikson, Erik, 241

F

Fainstein, Norman, 220

Fainstein, Susan, 220

Farrell, James T., 19 , 20 , 29 , 34 , 68 , 84 -85, 244 ;

and Algren, 61 , 92 , 322 ;

and Chicago School, 51 , 330 n29;

and Harlem literature, 254 , 294 ;

as neighborhood novelist, 33 , 49 -50, 149 ;

Sam Holman,322 ;

and South Street literature, 125 -26, 143 , 149

Fiedler, Leslie, 59 , 317

Fisher, James T., 110

Fisher, Philip, 82

Franklin, Benjamin, 294

Freeman, Ira Henry: Out of the Burning,234 , 254 , 294 -95

Frost, Robert, 97

Fuller, Henry Blake, 48

G

Gans, Herbert, 139 , 301

Gates, Henry Louis Jr., 61 -62, 272 -73

Geismar, Maxwell, 59

ghetto, second, 57 , 205 -6;

in Chicago, 57 ;

cultural importance of, 205 -17, 221 -24;

in New York, 219 -22;

in Philadelphia, 135 , 151 -52

Goodman, Paul, 241 , 293 , 301 , 302 , 304 -5, 307

Goodman, Percival, 302

Gorki, Maxim, 58

Gottehrer, Barry, 232 , 234 , 236

Grass, Giinter, 211

Grays Ferry, 120 , 144 , 153 , 154 , 158 , 159 , 165 , 166 , 167 , 173 , 175 , 194 , 199 , 337 n6

Greenwich Village, 206 , 267 , 270 , 279 , 281 , 289 -9, 301 -2, 303 , 310

Guy, Buddy, 95

H

Hackett, Francis, 51

Halper, Albert, 327 n8

Hamilton, Charles, 216 ;

Black Power,216 , 251

Hansberry, Lorraine: A Raisin in the Sun,99

Harlem:

decline narratives about, 99 , 221 , 350 n26, 351 n20;

as exemplary second ghetto, 206 , 213 , 217 , 220 -24, 231 ;

literature of, 212 , 222 -23, 309 ;

urban intellectuals' credentials and, 222 -23, 252 -55, 261 -68, 286 -92, 293 -310.

See also under Manchild in the Promised Land

Harlem Renaissance, 155 , 222

Harrington, Michael, 301

Harris, Joel Chandler, 209 , 259 -60, 263 , 264 -65, 267 , 268

Haussmann, Baron, 12

Hearst, William Randolph, 36

Hecht, Ben, 34

Hemingway, Ernest, 19 , 61 , 266 , 316 -19

Hentoff, Nat, 293 , 301 , 304 , 305


356

Herrick, Robert, 34 , 48 , 49

High School Confidential (film), 243

Himes, Chester, 144 , 152 , 153

Hogarth, William, 298

Holiday (magazine), 27 , 28 , 97 , 99 , 327 n8

Holiday, Billie, 2 , 198

Howe, Irving, 293 , 300 , 301 , 302 , 350 n26

Howling Wolf, 95

Hughes, Langston, 211 , 294

Hugo, Victor, 58

Hutchins, Robert, 36 , 327 n8

I

inner city, 325 n2

Insull, Samuel, 30 , 36

J

Jackson, George, 210 , 270

Jackson, Shoeless Joe, 20 , 30

Jacobs, Jane, 7 , 139 , 227 -28, 232 , 246 -47, 249 , 314

James, Rev. William, 282

Johnson, Lyndon B., 229 , 300 , 315

Jones, Douglas, 349 n20

Jones, James, 61 , 265

Jones, LeRoi (Amiri Baraka), 210 , 211 , 294

K

Kafka, Franz, 158

Karenga, Ron, 210

Katzenbach, Nicholas, 300 , 315

Kazin, Alfred, 59 , 302 , 334 n7

Kefauver, Estes, 240 , 243

Kennedy, John F., 211 , 229

Kennedy, Robert, 229 , 272

Kerner Commission, 216 , 229 , 231 , 258 , 266

Killens, John O., 265 -68, 295

King, Martin Luther, 229 , 272

Knickerbocker, Conrad, 59

Kuprin, Alexander, 98

L

Lait, Jack (Chicago Confidential ), 27 -35, 37 , 38 , 43 , 78 , 87

Lester, Julius, 210

Liebling, A. J., 7 , 71 , 349 n20;

Chicago: The Second City,27 -30, 32 -35, 55 , 74

Lindner, Robert, 245

Lindsay, John, 232

Lindsay, Vachel, 34

Linney, Romulus, 294

Lombino, Sal (Evan Hunter), 244

London, Jack, 313

Lovett, Robert Morss, 36

M

Macdonald, Dwight, 317 -18

magical realism, 109 , 112 , 198

Magic Sam, 95

Mailer, Norman, 211 , 265 , 293 , 300 , 301 , 302

Malcolm X, 210 , 224 , 225 , 229 , 233 -34, 235 , 270 , 283 , 285 ;

Autobiography,12 , 209 -10, 270 , 312

Man with the Golden Arm, The (Algren), 19 -20, 66 , 69 -74;

and Chicago: City on the Make,69 , 70 , 75 , 88 -90;

in Chicago literary tradition, 69 , 80 ;

city without artists in, 95 ;

as decline narrative, 12 , 20 -22, 25 , 38 , 58 , 69 -79, 90 , 112 -15;

and The Devil' s Stocking,321 , 322 ;

El in, 21 , 22 , 39 , 71 , 74 -75, 76 , 78 , 79 , 84 , 87 , 88 , 89 ;

as extreme novel, 9 , 69 , 90 ;

family narrative in, 76 -77;

figures of urban intellectual in, 10 , 25 , 73 -74, 79 , 90 ;

ghetto in, 69 , 78 , 79 , 81 , 87 , 88 , 96 ;

music in, 95 -96;

and Notes from a Sea Diary,319 ;

October City in, 21 , 68 , 70 , 86 , 88 ;

and postindustrial transformation, 22 , 67 -69, 80 , 90 ;

restricted range of, 67 , 75 ;

and Sister Carrie,69 , 79 -90;

urban village in, 22 , 67 , 71 , 74 -79, 84

Manchild in the Promised Land (Claude Brown), 2 , 9 , 269 ;

Black Muslims in, 276 , 278 -81, 283 -86;

blueprint of ghetto literature in, 296 , 308 -10, 312 -13;

cover of, 223 -24;

as "dated," 308 ;

delinquency in, 211 , 224 -25, 270 -71, 276 , 277 -79, 282 , 290 , 291 ;

and films, 309 -10;

first-person narration in, 269 -70, 273 , 274 ;

Harlem in, 212 , 286 -91;

making of an urban intellectual in, 271 , 276 , 279 -81, 282 -86, 288 , 291 -92, 296 , 300 (see also under Brown, Claude);

mapping of New York in, 271 , 286 -291, 296 , 305 ;

narrative structure of, 210 , 269 -71, 276 -86, 296 , 300 , 305 , 307 ;

reception of, 11 -12, 205 , 210 -11, 270 , 275 , 293 -310, 315 -16;

riots in, 285 , 286 -87, 291 -92

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia,  12

Masters, Edgar Lee, 32 , 34 , 48 , 49 , 51

McCormick, Robert, 29 , 36 , 37 , 327 n8

McInerney, Jay: Bright Lights, Big City,309

McKinney-Whetstone, Diane, 2 , 7 , 121 , 123 , 150 , 313 ;

career of, 171 -72;

Tumbling, 120 , 125 , 126 , 128 , 139 , 140 , 169 -70, 173 , 193 -200

McMillan, Terry: Waiting to Exhale,2

Melville, Herman, 24 , 313

Mencken, H. L., 48 -49

Meyerson, Martin, 56 , 140

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 98

Miller, Warren (See also Cool World, The; Siege of Harlem, The ), 11 , 216 , 223 , 236 , 311 , 313 ;

authorial persona of, 10 , 212 -13, 238 -39, 252 -55, 261 -63, 299 , 308 , 309 ;

and Claude Brown, 205 , 210 -13, 224 , 277 ,


357

288 , 289 , 293 , 294 -96, 299 , 304 -6, 307 , 308 -10;

career and works of, 206 -7;

as "dated," 12 , 308 ;

and Freeman, 234 , 294 -95;

and postindustrial transformation, 208 , 212 -13, 238 , 240 , 255 , 308 -10;

The Sleep of Reason,207 , 308 ;

and urban crisis, 207 -9, 212 -13, 217 , 238 -40, 250 -51, 255 , 256 -58, 268 , 294 , 308 ;

as urban intellectual, 7 , 206 , 208 -9, 224 , 238 -40, 252 -55, 263 -68, 307

Milwaukee Avenue corridor, 41 -42, 44 , 62 -65, 66 , 94 , 103 , 322 ;

in Algren's works, 21 -22, 49 , 50 , 68 , 70 , 68 , 70 , 74 , 80 , 87 , 38 -9

Mitchell, Robert, 138

Mollenkopf, John, 52 , 134 , 151 , 217 -18

Monroe, Harriet, 32 , 34 , 51 , 98

Moore, Archie, 280 , 282 , 348 n19

Morrison, Toni, 171

Mortimer, Lee. See Lait, Jack

Moses, Robert, 218 , 228

Motley, Willard, 152

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 8 , 183 , 199 , 221 , 271 , 309

Muddy Waters, 95

Murray, Albert, 182 , 222 , 266 -68, 294

Murrow, Edward R., 245

N

Naylor, Gloria, 171

National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. See Kerner Commission

Near Northwest Side. See Milwaukee Avenue corridor

neighborhood, 123 -24

neighborhood novel, 49 -50, 123 -26

New Journalism, 91 , 190 , 192 , 297 , 321

Newsweek, 7 , 206 -7, 211 , 230 , 275 , 286 -87, 294 , 314 -17, 319

New York City: decline narratives about, 301 - 2 ;

dominance of urban conversation by, 222 -23;

postindustrial transformation of, 217 -21;

and urban crisis, 231 -36

"New York City in Crisis," 231 -37, 297

New York Herald-Tribune,231 -37, 297 -99

Nichols, Robert, 302

Nkrumah, Kwame, 144 , 250

Norris, Frank, 34 , 48 , 49 , 254 , 313

Novak, Michael, 106

O

Ohlin, Lloyd, 8 , 242

P

Paley, Frank, 244

Papanek, Ernst, 223 , 279 , 281 , 300 , 305 -6

Park, Robert, 7 -8, 38 , 51 , 325 n2.

See also Chicago School of sociology

Patterson, Floyd, 280

Patterson, Joseph Medill, 48

Pei, I.M., 136 , 178 -79, 186

Pepys, Samuel, 294

Petry, Anne, 121 ;

The Street,126 , 157 , 164

Philadelphia: decline narratives about, 130 , 145 -49, 186 -93, 197 -98;

neighborhoods in, 119 -20;

postindustrial transformation of, 130 -41.

See also South Street

Pilgrim's Progress,294

Pilsen/Little Village, 108 , 109

Podhoretz, Norman, 59 , 272 , 293 , 317

postindustrial transformation: of Chicago, 40 -44, 52 -58;

defined, 3 -6, 214 -17, 325 n2;

literature of, 7 -8, 12 , 313 -14;

of New York, 217 -21;

of Philadelphia, 130 -41

Powell, Adam Clayton, 304

Prescott, Orville, 59

Pritchett, V. S., 261

progrowth coalition, 41 , 52 -58, 132 -34, 151 , 165 -66, 218 , 227 -28

R

Rebel without a Cause (film), 243 .

See also Lindner, Robert

redevelopment: defined, 326 n3;

of literature, 13 -14

Ribicoff, Abraham, 271 -72, 315 , 347 n5

Rizzo, Frank, 251

Robinson, Jackie, 2 , 192 , 198 , 278

Robinson, Sugar Ray, 278 , 280

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 278 , 282

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 233

Rotella, Sebastian, 336 n24

Royko, Mike, 7 , 11 , 94 , 102 -8, 113 , 114 , 115 , 190 , 313 -14;

Boss,46 -47, 75 , 103 -7, 335 n24, 347 n5

Rush, Otis, 95

Rust Belt, 14 , 28 , 54

S

Salinger, J. D. (The Catcher in the Rye ), 246 , 254 , 265 , 309

Salisbury, Harrison, 7 , 226 , 241 , 243

Sanchez, Sonia, 210

Sandburg, Carl, 20 , 27 , 28 , 32 , 34 , 48 , 49 , 68 , 88 , 89 , 92 , 93 , 97 , 113 , 327 n8;

"Chicago," 13 , 27 , 28 , 33 , 38 , 60 , 75 -76, 104 -5

Sapphire: Push,13 , 309

Saroyan, William, 61

Schaap, Dick, 294

Scheingold, Stuart, 228 -29

Schroth, Raymond, 296 -97, 299

Schulberg, Budd, 311 -13, 316 , 317 , 318 , 322 , 350 n1;

From theAshes , 311 -13;

The Harder They Fall , 311 ;

Waterfront/On the Waterfront , 113 , 311

Schwartz, Alex, 220


358

Schweitzer, Albert, 278

Shay, Arthur: Nelson Algren's Chicago,40 -44, 52 , 55 , 56 , 62 , 64 , 92 , 351 n1

Shelley, Percy Bysshe: "To a Skylark," 110 , 114

Shulman, Irving:TheAmboy Dukes,243 , 245 , 246

Siege of Harlem, The (Miller), 9 , 207 , 208 -9, 212 , 255 -63, 268 , 274 , 299 , 306 , 348 n19;

reception of, 263 -68

Sinclair, Upton, 34 , 49 , 313 ;

The Jungle, 51 , 80 , 87

Slochower, Herbert, 301

Smith, William Gardner (See also South Street ), 7 , 121 , 150 , 153 , 200 , 233 , 244 , 250 , 307 , 313 , 314 ;

career of, 122 , 123 , 143 -44, 170 ;

Return to Black America,144 , 158 -59, 167 , 244

Society Hill skyscrapers. See Pei, I. M.

Sorel, Edward, 207

South Street:

history of, 119 -20, 134 -40;

literature of, 120 -30, 140 , 142 -45, 167 -72, 200 -201.

See also individual authors and titles

South Street (Bradley), 120 , 125 , 126 -27, 140 , 172 -85, 191 , 194 , 195 , 200 , 242 ;

figures of urban intellectuals in, 128 -29, 173 -74, 177 -85;

and postindustrial transformation, 169 -70, 174 , 176 -77, 178 ;

runaway scene in, 128 , 180 -82

South Street (Smith), 120 , 123 -26, 130 , 140 , 142 , 169 , 172 -75, 185 , 188 , 191 , 194 , 195 , 199 ;

counterargument of, 160 -65;

family narrative in, 126 , 154 -60, 163 , 166 -67;

figures of urban intellectuals in, 128 -29, 154 -60, 162 , 163 , 165 , 166 ;

literary historical moment of, 126 , 150 -53, 165 -68;

neighborhood in, 154 -60;

runaway scene in, 128 , 166 -67, 181

Squires, Gregory, 43 -44, 53 , 54

Stein, Gertrude, 143 , 149

Steinbeck, John, 254 , 294

Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin,8 , 245 , 246 , 252 , 259 -60, 267 , 294

Suttles, Gerald, 91 -92, 334 n7

T

Temple University, 122 , 170 , 187

Thomas, Piri, 270 , 307

Thompson, Big Bill, 30

Tunley, Roul, 227

Turner, Frederick Jackson, 29

U

University of Chicago, 31 , 35 , 55 , 327 n8.

See also Chicago School of sociology

University of Pennsylvania, 2 , 122 , 123 , 138 , 170 , 171 , 174 , 177 , 179 , 183 , 186

Updike, John, 265

urban crisis, 6 -7,  11 -13, 214 -17

urban intellectuals: credentials of, 10 -11;

defined, 7 -8;

figures of, in literature, 9 -10

urban renewal.

See redevelopment

urban village:

defined, 21 -22;

in Chicago, 21 -22, 45 -47;

credentials of, 10 -11;

in New York, 218 -20;

in Philadelphia, 135 -37

V

Venturi, Robert, 138 -39

violence: as figure of urban process, 129 -30, 149 -50, 184 -85, 215 -17, 236 -37, 240 ;

and urban crisis, 214 -17, 224 -36, 314 -16

W

Wagner, Robert, 232

Wakefield, Dan, 252 , 265

Walker, T-Bone, 312

Wells, Junior, 95

Wertham, Fredric, 223 , 231 , 243

West Side Story (film), 243

white ethnics, 15 , 343 n15

Whitman, Walt, 98 , 313 , 316

Wiener, Willard, 244

Wilde, Oscar, 267

Wilkens, Roy, 272

Williams, William Carlos, 97

Wills, Garry, 293 , 300

Wilson, James Q., 228 -29

Wirth, Louis, 50 , 330 n29

Wiseman, Frederick, 255

Wolfe, Thomas, 61

Wolfe, Tom, 7 , 190 , 293 , 297 -99, 300 , 302 , 306 -7

Wordsworth, William, 93

Wright, Richard, 20 , 34 , 68 , 244 ;

and Algren, 1 , 19 , 49 -50, 61 , 80 , 84 -85, 92 , 96 -97, 101 ;

and Claude Brown, 1 -2, 323 ;

and Chicago School, 51 , 330 n29;

Eight Men, 1,323 ;

Native Son, 49 , 80 , 157 , 321 ;

as neighborhood novelist, 33 , 49 -50;

and second ghetto, 294 , 313 , 323 ;

and South Street literature, 125 , 126 , 143 , 144 , 152 , 153 , 157 , 171 ;

and urban crisis, 330 n26

Y

Young, Whitney, 272

Yurick, Sol: The Warriors,159

Z

Zola, Emile, 12 , 51

Zukin, Sharon, 215


 

Preferred Citation: Rotella, Carlo. October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature. Berkeley, Calif London:  University of California Press,  c1998 1998. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8m3nb5g7/