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Defending Their Own in the Cold

The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans
  • ISBN-13: 9780252036460
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Marc Zimmerman
  • Price: AUD $239.00
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2011
  • Format: Hardback 232 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]
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A visual and textual journey through the cultural contributions of Puerto Rican artists in the United StatesThis volume explores U.S. Puerto Rican culture as presented in East Coast, Midwest, and Chicago cultural production while exploring Puerto Rican musical, film, artistic and literary performance. Marc Zimmerman relates the experience of Puerto Ricans to that of Chicanos and Cuban Americans, showing how Puerto Ricans have survived and created new identities and relations out of their colonized and diasporic circumstances. He looks at visual artists Juan Sánchez, Ramón Flores, and Elizam Escobar, New York Rican dancer turned poet Carmen Pursifull, and entertainment superstar Jennifer Lopez. Zimmerman offers his own ''semi-outsider'' perspective as a Jewish man from New York who married into a Puerto Rican family, and a final essay considers cultural attitudes towards Puerto Ricans in a testimonial text by author Miguel Barnet.
Preface; Introduction I. Puerto Rican and Chicano Crossovers in Latino Film and Music Culture; II. The Flag and Three Rican Artists; III. U.S. Puerto Rican Literature; IV. Chicago Puerto Rican Writers and their Struggle; V. Carmen Pursifull: Dancing from New York to Anglo-Illinois; VI. Cuban-Puerto Rican Relations and Final Projections Works Consulted and Cited; Index
''The author introduces insightful and provocative arguments about U.S. Puerto Rican cultural experiences and provides compelling illustrations. This is an important reference text that will undoubtedly stimulate further research.''--Edna Acosta-Belen, coauthor of Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Contemporary Portrait
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