Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvJon D. Rossini

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Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama explores the work of a unique group of playwrights—Puerto Rican dramatists writing in the United States—who offer a model of political engagement. As members of the Puerto Rican diaspora, they have a heightened awareness of the systematic discrimination and the colonial citizenship created by Puerto Rico’s territorial status. Pragmatic Liberation analyzes the work of established playwrights as well as work that has previously received little attention in the world of theater studies, including René Marqués’s Palm Sunday. The book demonstrates the strategies these playwrights use to model a nuanced way of moving toward liberation while being sensitive to the potential impact these actions might have on those closest to us. This is a crucially important model that needs more attention in our currently polarized political moment.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-07
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt380 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor254
FörlagThe University of Michigan Press
ISBN9780472056729

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PREFACEACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTION. Given Circumstances, Premise, and Pragmatic Strategies of LiberationCHAPTER 1. From Palm Sunday to REVOLT!: Rethinking the Political Horizon of Puerto RicanDiasporic DramaCHAPTER 2. Symbolic Action as Pragmatic Politics: Lolita on the StageCHAPTER 3. Diasporic Return and the Limits of Pragmatic LiberationCHAPTER 4. Before Revolution, Honesty?: The Everyday Pragmatics of Activist WorkCHAPTER 5. After the Revolution: Massacres, Collateral Damage, and Moving ForwardCONCLUSION. The Labyrinth of Free Association and Sustainable Pragmatic LiberationNOTESREFERENCES

"Pragmatic Liberation is a timely study that responds to the divisiveness that characterizes contemporary political discourse...Rossini's monograph will speak to scholars in fields ranging from Theatre Studies to English, Spanish, and Ethnic Studies, and it is a particularly welcome contribution to literary studies of the Hispanic Caribbean diaspora because it engages with a genre that has generally been neglected."