Ricanness
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Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance

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Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance

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Argues that Ricanness operates as a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialism

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 theatre, 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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Publisher
NYU Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781479873982
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Hispanic American Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: A Living Colonialism, or Simply, the Aesthetic Life of Ricanness
  7. 1. Lipstick Revolutionaries: Dolores “Lolita” Lebrón Sotomayor and the Site of Rican Death
  8. 2. Running Out of Time: Rican Exhaustion, or Superman 51
  9. 3. Countdown to the Future: The Dread in the Masses That Are Always Already Asses
  10. 4. Looping Sensations: On Waiting with the Existential Ryan Rivera
  11. Epilogue: A Few More Scenes on the Unwanted, or a Pause for the Rican Future
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. About the Author