Ricanness
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Ricanness

Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance

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Ricanness

Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance

About this book

Honorable Mention, 2020 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research

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

In 1954, Dolores "Lolita" LebrĆ³n 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 LebrĆ³n's vanguard act, distilling the relationship between Puerto Rican subjectivity, gender, sexuality, and revolutionary performance under colonial time.

Ruiz argues that Ricannessā€”a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialism through different measures of timeā€”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 ADƁL, LebrĆ³n, 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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Information

Publisher
NYU Press
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781479825684
eBook ISBN
9781479873982
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Performing Arts
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 ā€œLolitaā€ LebrĆ³n 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