Puro Arte : Filipinos on the Stages of Empire / / Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns

• Autore: Burns Lucy Mae San Pablo
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.89921073
• Soggetto topico: Imperialism - Social aspects - Philippines; Nationalism - Social aspects - Philippines; Popular culture - Political aspects - United States; Popular culture - Political aspects - Philippines; Performing arts - Political aspects - United States; Performing arts - Political aspects - Philippines; Ethnicity - Political aspects - Philippines; Filipino Americans - Ethnic identity
• Soggetto geografico: United States Relations Philippines; Philippines Relations United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Puro Arte
• ISBN: 0-8147-0813-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786361003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Postmillennial pop.