Beautiful Wasteland: The Rise of Detroit As America's Postindustrial Frontier
Rebecca J. Kinney
Abstract
Beautiful Wasteland critically examines the racial logics embedded in the contemporary stories of Detroit that flow through popular culture, from Internet forums, photography, films, advertising, to news medias, in order to map the extension of the mythology of the frontier in American culture. Through analysing the cross-sections of these cultural locations, the book reveals the continued process of racialization in stories told about the rise, fall, and potential rise again of the city of Detroit. Detroit is indeed a ‘beautiful wasteland’, desirable and distressed in its narrative of ruin. T ... More
Keywords: Detroit, American frontier, Race, Narratives, Representation, Popular culture, Twenty-first century city, Neoliberal city, Humanities
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9780816697564 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: May 2017 | DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816697564.001.0001 |
