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Dream Nation
María Acosta Cruz
其他書名
Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence
出版
Rutgers University Press
, 2014-03-19
主題
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies
ISBN
0813571294
9780813571294
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zjvlAgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of independence have been defining features of Puerto Rican literature and culture. In the provocative new book
Dream Nation
, María Acosta Cruz investigates the roots and effects of this profound disconnect between cultural fantasy and political reality.
Bringing together texts from Puerto Rican literature, history, and popular culture,
Dream Nation
shows how imaginings of national independence have served many competing purposes. They have given authority to the island’s literary and artistic establishment but have also been a badge of countercultural cool. These ideas have been fueled both by nostalgia for an imagined past and by yearning for a better future. They have fostered local communities on the island, and still helped define Puerto Rican identity within U.S. Latino culture.
In clear, accessible prose, Acosta Cruz takes us on a journey from the 1898 annexation of Puerto Rico to the elections of 2012, stopping at many cultural touchstones along the way, from the canonical literature of the
Generación del 30
to the rap music of Tego Calderón.
Dream Nation
thus serves both as a testament to how stories, symbols, and heroes of independence have inspired the Puerto Rican imagination and as an urgent warning about how this culture has become detached from the everyday concerns of the island’s people.
A volume in the American Literature Initiatives series