The question arises: What was it about the turn-of-the-century moment that made it so clear—as it was immediately clear—that the character had to have this name, the hipster, which was so fraught with historical meaning? Subculture has never had a problem with neologism or exploitation of slang, from emo to punk to hippie. The hipster, however, was someone else already. Specifically, he was a black subcultural figure of the late forties, best anatomized by Anatole Broyard in an essay for the Partisan Review called “A Portrait of the Hipster.” A decade later, the hipster had evolved into a white subcultural figure. This hipster—and the reference here is to Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” essay for Dissent in 1957—was explicitly defined by the desire of a white avant-garde to disaffiliate itself from whiteness, with its stain of Eisenhower, the bomb, and the corporation, and achieve the “cool” knowledge and exoticized energy, lust, and violence of black Americans. (Hippie itself was originally an insulting diminutive of hipster, a jab at the sloppy kids who hung around North Beach or Greenwich Village after 1960 and didn’t care about jazz or poetry, only drugs and fun .) The hipster, in both black and white incarnations, in his essence had been about superior knowledge—what Broyard called “a priorism.” He insisted that hipsterism was developed from a sense that minorities in America were subject to decisions made about their lives by conspiracies of power they could never possibly know. The hip reaction was to insist, purely symbolically, on forms of knowledge that they possessed before anyone else, indeed before the creation of positive knowledge—a priori. Broyard focused on the password language of hip slang.
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基本上可以说 hipster是白人中的黑人! 我则是中国人中的黑人!
, . “A Norman
【在 l*y 的大作中提到】 : The question arises: What was it about the turn-of-the-century moment that : made it so clear—as it was immediately clear—that the character had to : have this name, the hipster, which was so fraught with historical meaning? : Subculture has never had a problem with neologism or exploitation of slang, : from emo to punk to hippie. The hipster, however, was someone else already. : Specifically, he was a black subcultural figure of the late forties, best : anatomized by Anatole Broyard in an essay for the Partisan Review called “A : Portrait of the Hipster.” A decade later, the hipster had evolved into a : white subcultural figure. This hipster—and the reference here is to Norman : Mailer’s “The White Negro” essay for Dissent in 1957—was explicitly