Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara: Difference, Homosexuality, Topography
Hazel Smith
Abstract
Frank O'Hara's poetry evokes a specific era and location: New York in the fifties and early sixties. This is a pre-computer age of typewritten manuscripts, small shops, and lunch hours: it is also an age of gay repression, accelerating consumerism, and race riots. The author suggests that the location and dislocation of the cityscape creates ‘hyperscapes’ in the poetry of O'Hara. The hyperscape is a postmodern site characterised by difference, breaking down unified concepts of text, city, subject, and art, and remolding them into new textual, subjective, and political spaces. This book theoris ... More
Keywords: Frank O'Hara, New York, gay repression, consumerism, race riots, hyperscapes, disruption, re-figuration, radicality
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2000 | Print ISBN-13: 9780853239949 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013 | DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846313301 |
