Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family

Framing Nation, Race, and Gender during the American Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

In this book, Hilda Lloréns offers a ground-breaking study of images—photographs, postcards, paintings, posters, and films—about Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans made by American and Puerto Rican image-makers between 1890 and 1990. Through illuminating discussions of artists, images, and social events, the book offers a critical analysis of the power-laden cultural and historic junctures imbricated in the creation of re-presentations of Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans by Americans (“outsiders”) and Puerto Ricans (“insiders”) during an historical epoch marked by the twin concepts of “modernization” and “progress.” The study excavates the ways in which colonial power and resistance to it have shaped representations of Puerto Rico and its people. Hilda Lloréns demonstrates how nation, race, and gender figure in representation, and how these representations in turn help shape the discourses of nation, race, and gender. Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family masterfully illustrates that as significant actors in the shaping of national conceptions of history image-makers have created iconic symbols deeply enmeshed in an “emotional aesthetics of nation.” The book proposes that images as important conveyers of knowledge and information are a fertile data site. At the same time, Lloréns underscores how colonial modernity turned global, the conceptual framework informing the analysis, not only calls attention to the national and global networks in which image-makers have been a part of, and by which they have been influenced, but highlights the manners by which technologies of imaging and “seeing” have been prime movers as well as critics of modernity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-05-27
Mått:152 x 228 x 21 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:290
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498504218

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Referensverk och tvärvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Konsthistoria inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Hilda Lloréns, PhD, is a faculty member in the Sociology and Anthropology department at the University of Rhode Island.

Recensioner i media

Drawing on photographs and works of art, Lloréns explores the representations of Puerto Rican people during 'the American century' and the sociopolitical dimensions of those representations. She develops these arguments using current and popular theorists, including Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault, Alfred Gell, and Susan Sontag, and appropriately references contributions from Puerto Rican scholars fairly thoroughly. These qualities contribute to the potential value of the work in broadening recognition of the Puerto Rican experience among scholars in anthropology, art history, and politics of representation, for example. . . .Lloréns' work here is . . . commendable for scholarly audiences, to whom the material is likely to be unfamiliar, and accessible for use at the advanced college level and above. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

Innehållsförteckning

List of AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Looking into the FrameChapter 1: Imaging Puerto Rican Natives, 1890-1920Chapter 2: Building a “Photographic Case” for the Rehabilitation of the Colony, 1930sChapter 3: The Emergence of Black-Puerto Ricans in Portraiture, 1930sChapter 4: Setting the Stage for Mid-Twentieth Century Imagery of Puerto Rico, 1920-1951Chapter 5: The Rise of Cultural Nationalism and Filmic Narratives of Blackness, 1948-1970Chapter 6: Dynamics of the 1970s: National and Racial TransfigurationsChapter 7: What the American Century has Wrought: Puerto Rican Images in the Late Twentieth CenturyEpilogue: Representing Puerto Rico during the American CenturyReferencesIndexAbout the Author