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Puro arte : Filipinos on the stages of empire / Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns.
LIBRA E184.F4 S29 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burns, Lucy Mae San Pablo.
- Series:
- Postmillennial pop
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Filipino Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Filipino Americans.
- Ethnicity--Political aspects--Philippines.
- Ethnicity.
- Performing arts--Political aspects--Philippines.
- Performing arts.
- Performing arts--Political aspects--United States.
- Popular culture--Political aspects--Philippines.
- Popular culture.
- Popular culture--Political aspects--United States.
- Nationalism--Social aspects--Philippines.
- Nationalism.
- Imperialism--Social aspects--Philippines.
- Imperialism.
- Relations.
- Imperialism--Social aspects.
- Nationalism--Social aspects.
- Popular culture--Political aspects.
- Performing arts--Political aspects.
- Ethnicity--Political aspects.
- Philippines--Relations--United States.
- Philippines.
- United States.
- United States--Relations--Philippines.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- Pura Arte: Filipinos on the Stages of Empire explores the emergence of Filipino American theater and performance from the early 20th century to the present. It stresses the Filipino performing body's location as it conjoins colonial histories of the Philippines with U.S. race relations and discourses of globalization.
- Pure arte, translated from Spanish into English, simply means "pure art." In Filipino, the phrase puro arte however performs a much mare ironic function, gesturing rather to the labor of over-acting, histrionics, playfulness, and over-the-top dramatics. In this book, puro arte functions as an episteme, a way of approaching the Filipino/a performing body at key moments in U.S.-Philippine imperial relations, from the 1904 St, Louis World's Fair, early American plays about the Philippines, Filipino patrons in U.S. taxi dance halls to the phenomenon of Filipino/a actors in Miss Saigon. Using this varied archive, Puro Arte turns to performance as an object of study and as a way of understanding complex historical processes of racialization in relation to empire and colonialism. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Putting on a Show
- "Which Way to the Philippines?" : United Stage of Empire
- "Splendid Dancing" : Of Filipinos and Taxi Dancehalls
- Coup de Theater : The Drama of Martial Law
- How in the Light of One Night Did We Come So Far : Working Miss Saigon
- Coda: Culture Shack.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814744437
- 0814744435
- 9780814725450
- 0814725457
- 9780814708132
- 0814708137
- 9780814744499
- 0814744494
- OCLC:
- 780483676
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