None of the above [[electronic resource] ] : Puerto Ricans in the global era / / edited by Frances Negrón-Muntaner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784216403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
• ISBN: 1-281-36307-3; 9786611363079; 0-230-60436-6
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2007.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 283 p.)
• Collana: New directions in Latino American cultures
• Altri autori (Persone): Negrón-MuntanerFrances
• Disciplina: 306.2097295
• Soggetti: Political culture - Puerto Rico; Nationalism - Puerto Rico; Identity (Psychology) - Puerto Rico; Puerto Rico Politics and government 1952-1998; Puerto Rico Relations United States; United States Relations Puerto Rico
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The absent state / Fernando Picó -- Sailing on the USS Titanic : Puerto Rico's unique insertion to global economic trends / Jaime Benson Arias -- Space out of place : consumer culture in Puerto Rico / Laura L. Ortiz-Negrón -- Nation and migration : rethinking Puerto Rican identity in a transnational context / Jorge Duany -- The political status of Puerto Rico : a nonsense dilemma / Carlos Pabón -- "None of the above" means more of the same : why solving Puerto Rico's status problem matters / Christina Duffy Burnett -- Vieques : protest as a consensual spectacle / Juan Duchesne Winter -- Entertainment tonight! Puerto Rican media and the privatization of politics / Silvia Alvarez-Curbelo -- Beauty salons : consumption and the production of the self / María isabel Quiñones Arocho -- Getting f****d in Puerto Rico : metaphoric provocations and queer activist interventions / Juana María Rodríguez -- Imagining Puerto Rican queer citizenship : Frances Negrón-Mutaner's Brincando el charco : portrait of a Puerto Rican / Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez -- Exposed bodies : media and U.S. Puerto ; Ricans in public space / Frances R. Aparicio -- Transing the standard : the case of Puerto Rican Spanish / Gloria D. Prosper-Sánchez -- Boricua (between) borders : on the possibility of translating bilingual narratives / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel -- The diaspora strickes back : nation and location / Juan Flores -- Will the "real" Puerto Rican culture please stand up? Thoughts on cultural nationalism / Raquel Z. Rivera -- Salsa, bad boys and brass / José Quiroga -- (a.k.a. : the sex/salsa/identity show) / Félix Jiménez -- Living la vida global : the case of Jose Padilla / Abdullah Al Muhajir / Frances Negrón-Muntaner.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume sets out current debates about Puerto Rico. The title simultaneously refers to the results of a non-binding 1998 plebiscite held in San Juan to determine Puerto Rico's political status, the ambiguities that have historically characterized its political agency, and the complexities of its ethnic, national, and cultural identifications.