Poetic Resurrection

The Bronx in American Popular Culture

While many Americans dismissed the borough of The Bronx in the late 1970s through the belief that »The Bronx is burning,« this study challenges that assumption. As the first explicit study on The Bronx in American popular culture, this book shows how a wide variety of cultural representations engaged in a complex dialogue on its past, present, and future. Sina A. Nitzsche argues that popular culture ushered in the poetic resurrection of The Bronx, an artistic and imaginative rebirth, that preceded, promoted, and facilitated the spatial revival of the borough.

“As Stuart Hall teaches us, popular culture is a site of struggle for and against power, even as it constitutes the stake to be won or lost in that struggle. Sina A. Nitzsche’s cultural geography of The Bronx begins the long overdue task of mapping that site, analyzing the most formative representations of that mythic borough through the multifaceted lens of power relations—it theorizes, documents, and contributes to a welcome poetic resurrection.”
Julia Leyda, Professor of Film Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

“Rigorously researched and superbly written, Poetic Resurrection: The Bronx in American Popular Culture also has a huge heart in its cent. In applying her personal experience of growing up in East Germany to approach the South Bronx, Sina A. Nitzsche has accomplished a major feat of cultural empathy.”
Sergio Bessa, former Chief Curator, Bronx Museum of the Arts

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3. September 2020, 220 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8394-5311-7
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Sina A. Nitzsche

Sina A. Nitzsche, Technische Universität Dortmund, Deutschland

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Autor_in(nen): Sina A. Nitzsche
Buchtitel: Poetic Resurrection The Bronx in American Popular Culture
Verlag: transcript Verlag
Seitenanzahl: 220
Ausstattung: 5 SW-Abbildungen, 2 Farbabbildungen

ISBN: 978-3-8394-5311-7
DOI: 10.14361/9783839453117
Warengruppe: 1510
BIC-Code: JFC DSB JFCA
BISAC-Code: SOC022000 LIT004020
THEMA-Code: JBCC DSB JBCC1

Erscheinungsdatum: 3. September 2020
Themen: Kultur, Amerika, Literatur, Film, Popkultur
Adressaten: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Hip-Hop Studies, Urban Studies, Literary Studies, American Studies, Film Studies, Sociology, Jewish American Studies, African American Studies, Puerto Rican Studies as well as Arts and culture institutes and anyone interested in the cultural history of New York City

Schlagworte: Literature, Film, Hip-Hop, New York City, 20th Century, The Bronx, Culture, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Popular Culture