Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.s. Puerto Ricans - Couverture souple

Zimmerman, Marc

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252085582 ISBN 13 : 9780252085581

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2020

Synopsis

Marc Zimmerman works from a theoretical frame of cultural, postcolonial, and diasporic studies to compare the artistic experiences and cultural production of Puerto Ricans with that of Chicanos and Cuban Americans. As he shows, even supposedly mainstream U.S. Puerto Ricans participate in a performative culture that embodies elements of possible cultural "Ricanstruction." Zimmerman examines a spectrum of U.S. Puerto Rican artistic life, including relations with other ethnic groups and resistance to colonialism and cultural assimilation. To illustrate how Puerto Ricans have survived and created new identities and relations out of their colonized and diasporic circumstances, Zimmerman looks at the cultural examples of Latino entertainment stars like Jennifer Lopez and Benicio del Toro; visual artists Juan Sánchez, Ramón Flores, and Elizam Escobar; and a group of Chicago Puerto Rican writers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Marc Zimmerman is a professor emeritus of world cultures and literatures in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston. He is the editor of Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago: My Life, My Work, My Art.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252085582
• ISBN 13: 9780252085581
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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