Puro Arte : Filipinos on the Stages of Empire / Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns.
2012
E184.F4 S29 2016
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Title
Puro Arte : Filipinos on the Stages of Empire / Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns.
ISBN
9780814708132
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814744437.001.0001 doi
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E184.F4 S29 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.89921073
Summary
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.
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Postmillennial Pop ; ; 9
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