Defending Their Own in the Cold – The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans

Defending Their Own in the ColdThe Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans\nAuthor(s): Marc Zimmerman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252085581, 978-0252085581\nSynopsis\nDefending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of [url] Puerto Ricans explores [url] Puerto Rican culture in past and recent contexts. The book presents East Coast, Midwest, and Chicago cultural production while exploring Puerto Rican musical, film, artistic, and literary performance. Working within the theoretical frame of cultural, postcolonial, and diasporic studies, Marc Zimmerman relates the experience of Puerto Ricans to that of Chicanos and Cuban Americans, showing how even supposedly mainstream [url] Puerto Ricans participate in a performative culture that embodies elements of possible cultural \""Ricanstruction.\""Defending Their Own in the Cold examines various dimensions of [url] Puerto Rican artistic life, inc.