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Using public storytelling as driving force, this book explores everyday social moralities relating to stories of sex, crime, violence, and nightlife in the 1920s city space. Focusing on capitalist New York, communist Odessa, and colonial Bombay, Mark D. Steinberg taps in to the global dimension of complex everyday moral anxiety that was prevalent in a vital and troubled decade.
Moral Storytelling in 1920s New York, Odessa, and Bombay compares and connects stories of the street in three compelling cosmopolitan port cities. It offers novel insights into significant and varied areas of study, including city life, sex, prostitution, jazz, dancing, gangsters, criminal undergrounds, cinema, ethnic and racial experiences and conflicts, prohibition and drinking, street violence, 'hooliganism' and other forms of 'deviance' in the contexts of capitalism, colonialism, communism, and nationalism.
The book tells the stories of moralizers: empowered and insistent critics of deviance driven to investigate, interpret, and interfere with how people lived and played. Beside them, not always comfortably, were the policemen and journalists who enforced and documented these efforts. It also reveals the histories of women and men, mostly working class and young, who were observed and categorized: those judged to be wayward, disreputable, disorderly, debauched, and wild. Steinberg explores this global culture war and the everyday moral improvisations—shaped by experiences of class, generation, gender, ethnicity, and race—that came with it.
Contents
Introduction: 'Crooked' and 'Straight' Paths through the City
Part 1 - Naked City, New York
Preface: Orientations
1. Prowling the City for Sin: The Detective and the Journalist
2. 'Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do'
3. Disgraceful Dancing
4. Harlem Black and White: Calls of Freedom
Part 2 - 'Odessa-Mama'
Preface: Orientations
5. Streetcorner Stories
6. Underworlds and Counterworlds
7. Hooligans
8. Dangerous Pleasures
Part 3 - Bombay: Colonial and Insurgent
Preface: Orientations
9. Street Stories
10. Bad Characters
11. 'Gay and Tawdry': The Night Side
12. Sex for Sale
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index
