Postmillennial Pop Ser.: Puro Arte : Filipinos on the Stages of Empire by ...

New York University Press

Puro ArteFilipinos on the Stages of Empire\nAuthor(s): Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814744437, 978-0814744437\nSynopsis\nWinner of the 2012 Outstanding Book Award in Cultural Studies, Association for Asian American Studies \n Puro Arte explores the emergence of Filipino American theater and performance from the early 20th century to the present. It stresses the Filipino performing body's location as it conjoins colonial histories of the Philippines with [url] race relations and discourses of globalization.\n Puro arte, translated from Spanish into English, simply means \""pure art.\"" In Filipino, puro arte however performs a much more ironic function, gesturing rather to the labor of over-acting, histrionics, playfulness, and purely over-the-top dramatics. In this book, puro arte functions as an episteme, a way of approaching the Filipino/a performing body at key moment.