Puerto Rican Jam
Essays on Culture and Politics
Published on 31. December 1997
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-8166-2848-3 (ISBN)
Description
1997 represents the 100th anniversary of the annexation of Puerto Rico to the United States. Since that time, the "Puerto Rican archipelago" has come to extend from the island itself, up the Eastern seaboard, and as far west as Ohio and Chicago. This study considers the identity issues unique to Puerto Rican culture, issues often encapsulated in matters of ethnicity, race, gender and language. Discussions of Puerto Rican cultural politics usually fall into one of two categories - nationalist or colonial. This work moves beyond this narrow dichotomy, and includes many essays written from the perspectives of groups that are not usually represented, including gays and lesbians, youth, blacks and women. This interdisciplinary collection includes articles on political economy, history, literature, ethnic studies, music, migration and sexuality. Among the topics discussed are the limitations of nationalism as a transformative and democratizing political discourse, the contradictory impact of American colonialism, language politics, and the 1928 US congressional hearings on women's suffrage in Puerto Rico.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 148 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-2848-3 (9780816628483)
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Content
"Native of nowhere" (poem), Frances Negron-Muntaner, Ramon Grosfoguel and Chloe Georas; "Las trampas de la fe", Chloe Georas; Puerto Rico - surviving colonialism and nationalism, Mariano Negron-Portillo; the divorce of nationalist discourses from the Puerto Rican people - a socio-historical perspective, Ramon Grosfoguel; Puerto Rico - the myth of the national economy thinking textually, Jaime Benson; the discrete charm of the proletariat - imagining early 20th-century Puerto Ricans in the last 25 years of historical inquiry, Kelvin Santiago-Valles; narrating the tropical pharmacy, Jose Quiroga; deconstructing Puerto Ricannes through sexuality - female counter-narratives on Puerto Rican identity, Yolanda Martinez; "so we decided to come and ask you ourselves" - the 1928 US Congressional hearings on women's suffrage in Puerto Rico; the Puerto Rican archipelago - contested identities, Gladys Jimenez-Munoz; island at the crossroads - travelling between the translocal nations and the global city Agustin Lao; Puerto Rican identity up in the air - air migration, its cultural representation and me "Cruzando el charco", Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez; Pa' la escuela con mucho cuidado y por la orillita - a journey through the contested terrains of the nation and sexuality culture wars in contemporary Puerto Rico, Manuel Guzman; contending nationalism - culture, politics and sponsorship in Puerto Rico, Arlene Davila; rapping two versions of the same requiem, Raquel Rivera; English only Jamas but Spanish only Cuidado - language nationalism in contemporary Puerto Rico, Frances Negron-Muntaner.