Urban Legends The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin

Since the 1960s the South Bronx has been reduced to an archetype of the “inner city,” the exemplar of urban decay and of the cultural renaissance produced by hip hop. Peter L’Official turns to literature and visual arts to capture the history of a place whose truth lay obscured between the Bronx as...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
L'Official, Peter
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2020]
Zusammenfassung:
Since the 1960s the South Bronx has been reduced to an archetype of the “inner city,” the exemplar of urban decay and of the cultural renaissance produced by hip hop. Peter L’Official turns to literature and visual arts to capture the history of a place whose truth lay obscured between the Bronx as symbol and the Bronx as lived fact
Umfang:
1 online resource (288 p.)
ISBN:
9780674246515
DOI:
10.4159/9780674246515
Schlagworte:
Urban folklore / New York (State) / New York
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
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