Puerto Rico: the pleasures and traumas of race
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| author | Alan West-Durán |
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| contents | Puerto Rico: the pleasures and traumas of race Alan West-Durán Sociología race mulatto mulatez gender and race national identity Writers and thinkers as diverse as Tomás Blanco, Luis PalésMatos, José Luis González, and Isabelo Zenón Cruz havegrappled with the issue of the islands Afro-Caribbeanidentity, ranging from denial (Blanco) to full affirmation(González). Apart from some historical background, thispaper will focus on perceptions of race in Puerto Ricanliterature (and music) from the island and the U.S. The latteris crucial not only because of U.S. colonial history on theisland, but also because of the racial experiences of PuertoRicans who have emigrated to (or were raised in) the U.S. Thepaper will examine the jíbaro myth, Palés Matoss poetry, andthe representation of racial identities in authors such asAlejandro Tapia y Rivera, Tato Laviera, Rosario Ferré,Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, and Mayra Santos Febre. It willdraw on and critically discuss critics and thinkers fromPuerto Rico, other parts of the Caribbean (Ortiz, Fanon,Glissant, and Stuart Hall). 2005 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37717103 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.1 Vol.XVII |
| format | Artículo científico |
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| language | en |
| publishDate | 2005 |
| publisher | The City University of New York |
| spellingShingle | Puerto Rico: the pleasures and traumas of race Alan West-Durán Sociología race mulatto mulatez gender and race national identity Puerto Rico: the pleasures and traumas of race Alan West-Durán Sociología race mulatto mulatez gender and race national identity Writers and thinkers as diverse as Tomás Blanco, Luis PalésMatos, José Luis González, and Isabelo Zenón Cruz havegrappled with the issue of the islands Afro-Caribbeanidentity, ranging from denial (Blanco) to full affirmation(González). Apart from some historical background, thispaper will focus on perceptions of race in Puerto Ricanliterature (and music) from the island and the U.S. The latteris crucial not only because of U.S. colonial history on theisland, but also because of the racial experiences of PuertoRicans who have emigrated to (or were raised in) the U.S. Thepaper will examine the jíbaro myth, Palés Matoss poetry, andthe representation of racial identities in authors such asAlejandro Tapia y Rivera, Tato Laviera, Rosario Ferré,Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, and Mayra Santos Febre. It willdraw on and critically discuss critics and thinkers fromPuerto Rico, other parts of the Caribbean (Ortiz, Fanon,Glissant, and Stuart Hall). 2005 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37717103 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.1 Vol.XVII |
| title | Puerto Rico: the pleasures and traumas of race |
| topic | Sociología race mulatto mulatez gender and race national identity |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37717103 |