Archipelagoes of longing : Puerto Ricans, resistance, and memory / Nicolás Ramos Flores.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramos Flores, Héctor Nicolás, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and society--Puerto Rico--History--20th century.

Arts and society.

Arts and society--Puerto Rico--History--21st century.

Psychic trauma in art.

Puerto Rico.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Examines how Puerto Rican visual and literary culture on the island and in the diaspora responds to oppression, migration, and trauma.Archipelagoes of Longing brings together a broad range of cultural materials to rearticulate Puerto Rican experience as one of connectedness through and despite dispersal. Drawing on Eduard Glissant's Archipelagic Thinking and José Esteban Muñoz's Queer Utopias, Nicolás Ramos Flores presents Archipelagoes of Longing as a framework for analyzing how murals, commemorative sites, testimonios, and documentary films manifest various forms of longing—for lost pasts, for equality and stability, and, ultimately, for Puerto Rican liberation. Distinctive in its analysis of works produced in the diaspora and on the island, the book shows how collective memory, desire, and resistance shape projections of Puerto Rican futures in the face of continued devastation, displacement, and trauma. From street art in Chicago and Philadelphia to the Pulse Nightclub memorial in Orlando to literary and cinematic reckonings with environmental disasters and neoliberal policies, Ramos Flores traces a map of longing and hope for real change rooted in shared colonial history"-- De Gruyter Brill.

Contents:

Introduction : Archipelagoes of longing and Puerto Ricans

Puerto Ricans, radical nostalgia, and street art murals in Chicago and Philadelphia

The shrouding of queer Rican life in the Interim National Pulse Memorial

In Hurricane Maria’s wake : Mourning, catastrophe, and consciousness in (post-)disaster Puerto Rico

Political resistance, collective action, and hopeful pessimism in Puerto Rican documentary film

Conclusion : Bad Bunny’s longing and Puerto Rico today.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed April 3, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Ramos Flores, Héctor Nicolás. Archipelagoes of longing

ISBN:

9798855806359

9798855806342

OCLC:

1579845489

Publisher Number:

CIPO000354730

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license