Playful protest : the political work of joy in Latinx media / Kristie Soares.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soares, Kristie, author.

Series:

Feminist media studies (University of Illinois (System). Press)

Feminist media studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic Americans and mass media.

Hispanic Americans--Politics and government.

Mass media and culture--United States.

Joy--Political aspects.

Mass media and culture.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 275 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Joy is a politicized form of pleasure that goes beyond gratification to challenge norms of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Kristie Soares focuses on the diasporic media of Puerto Rico and Cuba to examine how music, public activist demonstrations, social media, sitcoms, and other areas of culture resist the dominant stories told about Latinx joy. As she shows, Latinx creators compose versions of joy central to social and political struggle and at odds with colonialist and imperialist narratives that equate joy with political docility and a lack of intelligence. Soares builds her analysis around chapters that delve into gozando in salsa music, precise joy among the New Young Lords Party, choteo in the comedy ¿Qué Pasa U.S.A.?, azúcar in the life and death of Celia Cruz, dale as Pitbull's signature affect, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's use of silliness to take seriously political violence"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Dancing in My Parents' Living Room and Other Stories about Joy

Gozando: Gendered Discourses of Pleasure in Early Salsa

Precise Joy: The Gendered Performance of Affect in the Young Lords Party

Choteo and the Family Sitcom: Poking Fun at Cuban Masculinities in ¿Qué Pasa U.S.A.?

Dancing with Death: Celia Cruz's Azúcar and Queer of Color Survival

Dale: Queer Racialized Excess in Pitbull's Miami

Coda: Politicized Silliness in a Time of Crisis: Notes on Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Soares, Kristie. Playful protest

ISBN:

9780252045295

0252045297

9780252087424

0252087429

OCLC:

1346529736