Cruising the Dead River : David Wojnarowicz and New York's Ruined Waterfront / Fiona Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Fiona, Author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wojnarowicz, David.

Cruising (Sexual behavior)--New York (State)--New York.

Cruising (Sexual behavior).

Sexual minority community--New York (State)--New York.

Sexual minority community.

Waterfronts--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York.

Waterfronts.

Ruins in art.

Waterfronts in art.

New York (N.Y.)--In art.

New York (N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the 1970s, Manhattan's west side waterfront was a forgotten zone of abandoned warehouses and piers. Though many saw only blight, the derelict neighborhood was alive with queer people forging new intimacies through cruising. Alongside the piers' sexual and social worlds, artists produced work attesting to the radical transformations taking place in New York. Artist and writer David Wojnarowicz was right in the heart of it, documenting his experiences in journal entries, poems, photographs, films, and large-scale, site-specific projects. In Cruising the Dead River, Fiona Anderson draws on Wojnarowicz's work to explore the key role the abandoned landscape played in this explosion of queer culture. Anderson examines how the riverfront's ruined buildings assumed a powerful erotic role and gave the area a distinct identity. By telling the story of the piers as gentrification swept New York and before the AIDS crisis, Anderson unearths the buried histories of violence, regeneration, and LGBTQ activism that developed in and around the cruising scene.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Queer at the Water's Edge

1. Nostalgia for the Mud: Cruising in Ruins

2. The Whole World and the Cemetery: The Queer Visual Culture of Ruins

3. Cruising Ghosts: David Wojnarowicz's Queer Antecedents

4. Protest and Preservation on the Waterfront

Conclusion: Rising into Ruin

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9780226603896

022660389X

OCLC:

1121140085