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Book SynopsisDiscussions of Puerto Rican cultural politics usually fall into one of two categories - nationalist or colonial. This work moves beyond this narrow dichotomy, and includes many essays written from the perspectives of groups that are not usually represented.
Table of Contents"Native of nowhere" (poem), Frances Negron-Muntaner, Ramon Grosfoguel and Chloe Georas; "Las trampas de la fe", Chloe Georas; Puerto Rico - surviving colonialism and nationalism, Mariano Negron-Portillo; the divorce of nationalist discourses from the Puerto Rican people - a socio-historical perspective, Ramon Grosfoguel; Puerto Rico - the myth of the national economy thinking textually, Jaime Benson; the discrete charm of the proletariat - imagining early 20th-century Puerto Ricans in the last 25 years of historical inquiry, Kelvin Santiago-Valles; narrating the tropical pharmacy, Jose Quiroga; deconstructing Puerto Ricannes through sexuality - female counter-narratives on Puerto Rican identity, Yolanda Martinez; "so we decided to come and ask you ourselves" - the 1928 US Congressional hearings on women's suffrage in Puerto Rico; the Puerto Rican archipelago - contested identities, Gladys Jimenez-Munoz; island at the crossroads - travelling between the translocal nations and the global city Agustin Lao; Puerto Rican identity up in the air - air migration, its cultural representation and me "Cruzando el charco", Alberto Sandoval-Sanchez; Pa' la escuela con mucho cuidado y por la orillita - a journey through the contested terrains of the nation and sexuality culture wars in contemporary Puerto Rico, Manuel Guzman; contending nationalism - culture, politics and sponsorship in Puerto Rico, Arlene Davila; rapping two versions of the same requiem, Raquel Rivera; English only Jamas but Spanish only Cuidado - language nationalism in contemporary Puerto Rico, Frances Negron-Muntaner.
