ENGL 161 PZ -Cities of Night in US Literature

Institution: Pitzer

Description: After a period of homelessness, Ben Reitman trained as a physician and cared for poor people, sex workers, outcasts, and unhoused people in Chicago and cities around the US. The book he wrote from that experience, Sister of the Road: the Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha, will situate us in the shifting urban ecologies of the US in the early to mid-20th century. Weâ€™ll ask how literary works like this and others offer new ways of thinking, seeing, and describing street life and those who dwell in what former male hustler and novelist John Rechy calls the â€œvast cities of night.â€

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