In this Book
- Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xxviii
- 2. The Flag and Three Rican Artists
- pp. 21-49
- 3. U.S. Puerto Rican Literature
- pp. 50-79
- 4. Puerto Rican Poets in Chicago
- pp. 80-111
- Bibliography
- pp. 157-180
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252093494
Related ISBN(s)
9780252036460, 9780252085581
MARC Record
OCLC
785781226
Pages
232
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2011