Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans

by Marc Zimmerman

Book Overview

Marc Zimmerman works from a theoretical frame of cultural, postcolonial, and diasporic studies to compare the artistic experiences and cultural production of Puerto Ricans with that of Chicanos and Cuban Americans. As he shows, even supposedly mainstream U.S. Puerto Ricans participate in a performative culture that embodies elements of possible cultural "Ricanstruction." Zimmerman examines a spectrum of U.S. Puerto Rican artistic life, including relations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252085582
• ISBN13: 9780252085581
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"