Boricua Pop : Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture / Frances Negrón-Muntaner.
Negrón-Muntaner, Frances, author.
2004
E184.P85
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Title Boricua Pop : Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture / Frances Negrón-Muntaner.
Author Negrón-Muntaner, Frances, author.
ISBN 9780814759141
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814759141.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2004]
Copyright ©2004
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9780814759141.001.0001 doi
Call Number E184.P85
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.868/7295073
Summary Boricua Pop is the first book solely devoted to Puerto Rican visibility, cultural impact, and identity formation in the U.S. and at home. Frances Negrón-Muntaner explores everything from the beloved American musical West Side Story to the phenomenon of singer/actress/ fashion designer Jennifer Lopez, from the faux historical chronicle Seva to the creation of Puerto Rican Barbie, from novelist Rosario Ferré to performer Holly Woodlawn, and from painter provocateur Andy Warhol to the seemingly overnight success story of Ricky Martin. Negrón-Muntaner traces some of the many possible itineraries of exchange between American and Puerto Rican cultures, including the commodification of Puerto Rican cultural practices such as voguing, graffiti, and the Latinization of pop music. Drawing from literature, film, painting, and popular culture, and including both the normative and the odd, the canonized authors and the misfits, the island and its diaspora, Boricua Pop is a fascinating blend of low life and high culture: a highly original, challenging, and lucid new work by one of our most talented cultural critics.
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Series Sexual Cultures ; ; 1
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780814758175
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I Founding Spectacles
1. Weighing In Theory: Puerto Ricans and American Culture
2. 1898: The Trauma of Literature, the Shame of Identity
3. Feeling Pretty: West Side Story and U.S. Puerto Rican Identity
Part II Boricuas in the Middle
4. From Puerto Rico with Trash: Holly Woodlawn's A Low Life in High Heels
5. The Writing on the Wall: The Life and Passion of Jean-Michel Basquiat
6. Flagging Madonna: Performing a Puerto Rican-American Erotics
Part III Boricua Anatomies
7. Rosario's Tongue: Rosario Ferré and the Commodification of Island Literature
8. Barbie's Hair: Selling Out Puerto Rican Identity in the Global Market
9. Jennifer's Butt: Valorizing the Puerto Rican Racialized Female Body
10. Ricky's Hips: The Queerness of Puerto Rican "White" Culture
Postscript: Words from the Grave
Notes
Index
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