Defending Their Own in the Cold : The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans Hardback
by Marc Zimmerman
Part of the Latinos in Chicago and Midwest series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages, 20 black and white photographs
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:27/10/2011
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- ISBN:9780252036460
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages, 20 black and white photographs
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:27/10/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780252036460
