Poetic Resurrection

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What role played popular culture in the urban transformation processes of The Bronx in the 20th and 21st centuries?
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.

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Sina A. Nitzsche

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»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.«
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»Rigorously researched and superbly written, »Poetic Resurrection: The Bronx in American Popular Culture« also has a huge heart at its center. 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.«
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