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Boricua Pop

Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture
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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 Negron-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 Ferre to performer Holly Woodlawn, and from painter provocateur Andy Warhol to the seemingly overnight success story of Ricky Martin. Negron-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.
Acknowledgments Preface Part I Founding Spectacles1 Weighing In Theory: Puerto Ricans and American Culture2 1898: The Trauma of Literature, the Shame of Identity 3 Feeling Pretty: West Side Story and U.S. Puerto Rican Identity Part II Boricuasin the Middle4 From Puerto Rico with Trash: Holly Woodlawn's A Low Life in High Heels5 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 Anatomies7 Rosario's Tongue: Rosario Ferre and the Commodi?cation 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 About the Author
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