Puerto Rican Jam
Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism
Published on 7. November 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-8166-2849-0 (ISBN)
Description
The year 1998 represents the hundredth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico. Since that time, the "Puerto Rican archipelago" has come to extend from the island itself, up the Eastern seaboard, and as far west as California and Hawai'i. Puerto Rican Jam considers the issues unique to Puerto Rican culture and politics, issues often encapsulated in concerns about ethnicity, race, gender, and language.
Discussions of Puerto Rican cultural politics usually fall into one of two categories, nationalist or colonialist. Puerto Rican Jam moves beyond this narrow dichotomy, elaborating alternatives to dominant postcolonial theories, and includes essays written from the perspectives of groups that are not usually represented, such as gays and lesbians, youth, blacks, and women. The essays propose different ways of conceptualizing the U.S.-Puerto Rican colonial relationship, thus opening new spaces for political, social, economic, and cultural agency for Puerto Ricans on both the island and the continent. 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 U.S. congressional hearings on women's suffrage in Puerto Rico.
A groundbreaking contribution to the study of colonialism, Puerto Rican Jam represents an important engagement with issues raised by American expansionism in the Caribbean.
Contributors: Jaime E. Benson-Arias, U of Puerto Rico, MayagUEez; Arlene DAvila, Syracuse U; ChloE S. Georas, SUNY, Binghamton; Manuel GuzmAn, CUNY Graduate Center; Gladys M. JimEnez-MuNoz, SUNY, Oneonta; AgustIn Lao, SUNY, Binghamton; Yolanda MartInez-San Miguel, U of Puerto Rico; Mariano NEgron-Portillo, U of Puerto Rico; JosE Quiroga, George Washington U; Raquel Z. Rivera, CUNY Graduate Center; Alberto Sandoval SAnchez, Mount Holyoke College; Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles, SUNY, Binghamton.
Frances NegrOn-Muntaner is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Rutgers University, as well as a poet and filmmaker. RamOn Grosfoguel is assistant professor of sociology at the State University of New York, Binghamton.
Discussions of Puerto Rican cultural politics usually fall into one of two categories, nationalist or colonialist. Puerto Rican Jam moves beyond this narrow dichotomy, elaborating alternatives to dominant postcolonial theories, and includes essays written from the perspectives of groups that are not usually represented, such as gays and lesbians, youth, blacks, and women. The essays propose different ways of conceptualizing the U.S.-Puerto Rican colonial relationship, thus opening new spaces for political, social, economic, and cultural agency for Puerto Ricans on both the island and the continent. 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 U.S. congressional hearings on women's suffrage in Puerto Rico.
A groundbreaking contribution to the study of colonialism, Puerto Rican Jam represents an important engagement with issues raised by American expansionism in the Caribbean.
Contributors: Jaime E. Benson-Arias, U of Puerto Rico, MayagUEez; Arlene DAvila, Syracuse U; ChloE S. Georas, SUNY, Binghamton; Manuel GuzmAn, CUNY Graduate Center; Gladys M. JimEnez-MuNoz, SUNY, Oneonta; AgustIn Lao, SUNY, Binghamton; Yolanda MartInez-San Miguel, U of Puerto Rico; Mariano NEgron-Portillo, U of Puerto Rico; JosE Quiroga, George Washington U; Raquel Z. Rivera, CUNY Graduate Center; Alberto Sandoval SAnchez, Mount Holyoke College; Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles, SUNY, Binghamton.
Frances NegrOn-Muntaner is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Rutgers University, as well as a poet and filmmaker. RamOn Grosfoguel is assistant professor of sociology at the State University of New York, Binghamton.
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Edition
2
Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-2849-0 (9780816628490)
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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.