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Puro arte : Filipinos on the stages of empire / Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burns, Lucy Mae San Pablo.
- Series:
- Postmillennial pop.
- 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.
- Philippines--Relations--United States.
- Philippines.
- United States--Relations--Philippines.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Book Award in Cultural Studies, Association for Asian American Studies Puro Arte 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. Puro arte, translated from Spanish into English, simply means “pure art.” In Filipino, puro arte however performs a much more ironic function, gesturing rather to the labor of over-acting, histrionics, playfulness, and purely 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Putting on a Show
- 1. “Which Way to the Philippines?”
- 2. “Splendid Dancing”
- 3. Coup de Théâtre
- 4. “How in the Light of One Night Did We Come So Far?”
- Coda: Culture Shack
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8147-0813-7
- OCLC:
- 818818797
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