Archipelagoes of Longing by Nicolás Ramos Flores HARDBACK 9798855806328

Name: Archipelagoes of Longing by Nicolás Ramos Flores HARDBACK 9798855806328
Brand: State University of New York Press

State University of New York Press

Archipelagoes of LongingPuerto Ricans, Resistance, and Memory\nAuthor(s): Nicols Ramos Flores\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9798855806328, 979-8855806328\nSynopsis\nExamines how Puerto Rican visual and literary culture on the island and in the diaspora responds to oppression, migration, and trauma.\n\nArchipelagoes of Longing brings together a broad range of cultural materials to rearticulate Puerto Rican experience as one of connectedness through and despite dispersal. Drawing on Eduard Glissant's Archipelagic Thinking and Jos Esteban Muoz's Queer Utopias, Nicols Ramos Flores presents Archipelagoes of Longing as a framework for analyzing how murals, commemorative sites, testimonios, and documentary films manifest various forms of longingfor lost pasts, for equality and stability, and, ultimately, for Puerto Rican liberation. Distinctive in its analysis of works produced in the di.