Puerto Rican jam : rethinking colonialism and nationalism / / Frances Negron-Muntaner and Ramon Grosfoguel, editors

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: x, 303 p
• Disciplina: 972.9505
• Soggetto topico: Ethnicity - Puerto Rico; Identity (Psychology) - Puerto Rico; Nationalism - Puerto Rico - History
• Soggetto geografico: Puerto Rico Politics and government 1952-1998; Puerto Rico Relations United States; United States Relations Puerto Rico
• Altri autori: GrosfoguelRamon Negron-MuntanerFrances
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beyond Nationalist and Colonialist Discourses: The Jaiba Politics of the Puerto Rican Ethno-Nation -- PART ONE: Challenging Nationalism -- 1 Puerto Rico: Surviving Colonialism and Nationalism -- 2 The Divorce of Nationalist Discourses from the Puerto Rican People: A Sociohistorical Perspective -- 3 Puerto Rico: The Myth of the National Economy -- PART TWO: ThinkingTextually -- 4 The Discreet Charm of the Proletariat: Imagining Early-Twentieth-Century Puerto Ricans in the Past Twenty-Five Years of Historical Inquiry -- 5 Narrating the Tropical Pharmacy -- 6 Deconstructing Puerto Ricanness through Sexuality: Female Counternarratives on Puerto Rican Identity (1894-1934) -- 7 "So We Decided to Come and Ask You Ourselves": The 1928 U.S. Congressional Hearings on Women's Suffrage in Puerto Rico -- PART THREE: The Puerto Rican Archipelago: Contested Identities -- 8 Islands at the Crossroads: Puerto Ricanness Traveling between theTranslocal Nation and the Global City -- 9 Puerto Rican Identity Up in the Air: Air Migration, Its Cultural Representations, and Me "Cruzando el Charco -- 10 "Pa' La Escuelita con Mucho Cuida'o y por la Orillita": A Journey through the Contested Terrains of the Nation and Sexual Orientation -- PART FOUR: Culture Wars in Contemporary Puerto Rico -- 11 Contending Nationalisms: Culture, Politics, and Corporate Sponsorship in Puerto Rico -- 12 Rapping Two Versions of the Same Requiem -- 13 English Only Jamás but Spanish Only Cuidado: Language and Nationalism in Contemporary Puerto Rico -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: These discussions elaborate alternatives to dominant postcolonial theories, and include essays written from the perspectives of groups that are not usually represented, such as gays and lesbians, youth, blacks, and women.
• Titolo autorizzato: Puerto Rican jam
• ISBN: 0-8166-8762-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825035703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II