Urban Legends : : The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin /

Urban Legends : : The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin / / Peter L'Official.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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L'Official, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: WHEN LEGEND BECOMES FACT
  • 1. THE LONE TENEMENT
  • 2. PERCEPTION IS REALITY
  • 3. DEATH AND TAXES
  • 4. A GLOBAL BRONX
  • 5. SOUTH BRONX SURREAL
  • 6. THE PARANOID STYLE OF SOUTH BRONX FILM
  • CONCLUSION: THE RIVER IS DEEP
  • NOTES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX

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