Defending their own in the cold : the cultural turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans / Marc Zimmerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimmerman, Marc, 1939-

Series:

Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest.

Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puerto Ricans--United States--Intellectual life.

Puerto Ricans.

Puerto Ricans--United States--Ethnic identity.

Puerto Ricans--United States--Attitudes.

Arts, Puerto Rican--Social aspects--United States.

Arts, Puerto Rican.

Puerto Ricans--Illinois--Chicago--Intellectual life.

Puerto Ricans--Illinois--Chicago--Ethnic identity.

Puerto Ricans--Illinois--Chicago--Attitudes.

Arts, Puerto Rican--Social aspects--Illinois--Chicago.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 196 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume explores US 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.

Contents:

Puerto Rican and Chicano crossovers in Latino film and music culture

The flag and three Rican artists

U.S. Puerto Rican literature

Puerto Rican poets in Chicago

Carmen Pursifull : dancing from New York to Anglo Illinois

Cuban-Puerto Rican relations and final projections.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613895363

9781283582919

1283582910

9780252093494

0252093496

OCLC:

785781226