None of the Above Puerto Ricans in the Global Era [Hardcover]

This volume sets out current debates about Puerto Rico. The title simultaneously refers to the results of a non-binding 1998 plebiscite held in San Juan to determine Puerto Rico's political status, the ambiguities that have historically characterized its political agency, and the complexities of its ethnic, national, and cultural identifications.NATIONALISM WITHOUT A NATION-STATE The Absent State; F.Pic? Nation, Migration, Identity; J.Duany Sailing the USS Titanic: Puerto Rico's Unique Insertion into Contemporary Globalization Trends; J.Benson National Consensus and the 'Good Feelings' Era; C.Pab?n None of the Above Means More of the Same: The Elusive Quest for Puerto Rican Self-Determination; C.Burnett THE SPECTACLE OF POLITICS AND THE POLITICS OF SPECTACLE Entertainment Tonight! Puerto Rican Media and the Privatization of Politics; S.Alvarez Curbelo Vieques: Protest as a Consensual Spectacle; J.Duchesne Racializing the Puerto Rican Day Parade: Recent Media Representations of U.S. Puerto Ricans in Public Space; F.Aparicio Cultural Nationalism: Roots That Kill or Roots That Give Life?; R.Rivera Imagining Puerto Rican Queer Citizenship: Frances Negr?n-Muntaner's Brincando el charco; A.Sandoval NO BORDERS On U.S. Latinos; J.Flores Salsa, Bodies, and Brass; J.Quiroga Getting F**ked in Puerto Rico; J.M.Rodr?guez Los Lenguajes Vacilantes : On the Translatability of Bilingual Narratives in Latino Writing; Y.Mart?nez No Standards: Spanish, Puerto Rican Style; G.Prosper

Negr?n-Muntaner examines Puerto Rico - not as a unique case - but as a key part of the shift toward a 'politics of small problems' that embraces spectacle, ambiguity, and contradiction in order to maneuver around dominant frameworks for political and national identity. - Chon A. Noriega, University of California, Los Angeles, author of Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of Chicano Cinema

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