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Boricua Pop Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture (Sexual
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Boricua Pop Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture (Sexual Cultures) Hardcover - 2004 - 1st Edition

by Frances Negrón-Muntaner


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Boricua Pop is the first book solely devoted to Puerto Rican visibility, cultural impact, and identity formation in the U.S. and at home. Frances Negrn-Muntaner explores everything from the beloved American musical West Side Story to the phenomenon of singer/actress/ fashion designer Jennifer Lopez, from the faux historical chronicle Seva to the creation of Puerto Rican Barbie, from novelist Rosario Ferr to performer Holly Woodlawn, and from painter provocateur Andy Warhol to the seemingly overnight success story of Ricky Martin. Negrn-Muntaner traces some of the many possible itineraries of exchange between American and Puerto Rican cultures, including the commodification of Puerto Rican cultural practices such as voguing, graffiti, and the Latinization of pop music. Drawing from literature, film, painting, and popular culture, and including both the normative and the odd, the canonized authors and the misfits, the island and its diaspora, Boricua Pop is a fascinating blend of low life and high culture: a highly original, challenging, and lucid new work by one of our most talented cultural critics.

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Shame is at the core of most cultures' origin myths, and in this sense it is not particular to boricuas.

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  • Title Boricua Pop Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture (Sexual Cultures)
  • Author Frances Negrón-Muntaner
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 16
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher NYU Press
  • Date June 1, 2004
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780814758175
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Gender/Sexuality Studies

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  • Choice, 11/01/2004, Page 573
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