Ricanness : enduring time in anticolonial performance /
In 1954, Dolores Lolita Lebrón and other members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party led a revolutionary action on the chambers of Congress, firing several shots at the ceiling and calling for the independence of the island. 'Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance' begins w...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | In 1954, Dolores Lolita Lebrón and other members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party led a revolutionary action on the chambers of Congress, firing several shots at the ceiling and calling for the independence of the island. 'Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance' begins with Lebrón's vanguard act, distilling the relationship between Puerto Rican subjectivity, gender, sexuality and revolutionary performance under colonial time. Ruiz argues that Ricanness, a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialism through different measures of time, uncovers what's at stake politically for the often unwanted, anticolonial, racialized and sexualized enduring body. Moving among theater, experimental video, revolutionary protest, photography, poetry and durational performance art, 'Ricanness' stages scenes in which the philosophical, social and psychic come together at the site of aesthetics, against the colonization of time. Analyzing the work of artists and revolutionaries like ADÁL, Lebrón, Papo Colo, Pedro Pietri and Ryan Rivera, 'Ricanness' imagines a Rican future through the time travel extended in their aesthetic interventions, illustrating how they have reformulated time itself through nonlinear aesthetic practices. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781479888740 1479888745 9781479825684 1479825689 |