The naturalistic inner-city novel in America : encounters with the fat man /
James R. Giles.
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, �1995.
- 1 online resource (ix, 204 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index.
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.
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