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Puerto Rican jam : rethinking colonialism and nationalism / Frances Negron-Muntaner and Ramon Grosfoguel, editors.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Grosfoguel, Ramón.
Negrón-Muntaner, Frances.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ethnicity--Puerto Rico.
Ethnicity.
Identity (Psychology)--Puerto Rico.
Identity (Psychology).
Nationalism--Puerto Rico--History.
Nationalism.
Puerto Rico--Politics and government--1952-1998.
Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico--Relations--United States.
United States--Relations--Puerto Rico.
United States.
Physical Description:
x, 303 p.
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1997.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
These discussions elaborate alternatives to dominant postcolonial theories, and include essays written from the perspectives of groups that are not usually represented, such as gays and lesbians, youth, blacks, and women.
Contents:
Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beyond Nationalist and Colonialist Discourses: The Jaiba Politics of the Puerto Rican Ethno-Nation
PART ONE: Challenging Nationalism
1 Puerto Rico: Surviving Colonialism and Nationalism
2 The Divorce of Nationalist Discourses from the Puerto Rican People: A Sociohistorical Perspective
3 Puerto Rico: The Myth of the National Economy
PART TWO: ThinkingTextually
4 The Discreet Charm of the Proletariat: Imagining Early-Twentieth-Century Puerto Ricans in the Past Twenty-Five Years of Historical Inquiry
5 Narrating the Tropical Pharmacy
6 Deconstructing Puerto Ricanness through Sexuality: Female Counternarratives on Puerto Rican Identity (1894-1934)
7 "So We Decided to Come and Ask You Ourselves": The 1928 U.S. Congressional Hearings on Women's Suffrage in Puerto Rico
PART THREE: The Puerto Rican Archipelago: Contested Identities
8 Islands at the Crossroads: Puerto Ricanness Traveling between theTranslocal Nation and the Global City
9 Puerto Rican Identity Up in the Air: Air Migration, Its Cultural Representations, and Me "Cruzando el Charco
10 "Pa' La Escuelita con Mucho Cuida'o y por la Orillita": A Journey through the Contested Terrains of the Nation and Sexual Orientation
PART FOUR: Culture Wars in Contemporary Puerto Rico
11 Contending Nationalisms: Culture, Politics, and Corporate Sponsorship in Puerto Rico
12 Rapping Two Versions of the Same Requiem
13 English Only Jamás but Spanish Only Cuidado: Language and Nationalism in Contemporary Puerto Rico
Contributors
Index
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Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-8166-8762-5
OCLC:
191930586

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