Nuyoriquenas in the house: Performing identity through hip hop, poetry, and theatre.
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Title
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Nuyoriquenas in the house: Performing identity through hip hop, poetry, and theatre.
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Identifier
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AAI3330492
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identifier
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3330492
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Creator
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Herrera, Patricia E.
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Contributor
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Adviser: David Savran
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Date
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2007
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Theater | Women's Studies | History, United States | Hispanic American Studies
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Abstract
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This project is a genealogical analysis of Nuyorican performance activism in New York City over the last fifty years. This research contests that there exists a historical memory embodied by the union of poetic, performative, and political traditions within the Puerto Rican and Nuyorican community. I pay close attention to how and what the ethnic/racial body performs in a range of demonstrations and manifestations that are specifically by, of and about Nuyorican culture-makers, their communities, and their place in the larger American social body.;The dissertation first traces the oral traditions of Nuyorican poetry back to declamadores, lectores, and the protest traditions of political organizations between the fifties and sixties, such as the Puerto Rican National Party, the Young Lords Party, and the Black Panther Party. In particular, this chapter examines the alternative public spaces that the Young Lords create in posters, demonstrations, songs, dances, poems, and plays as a protest strategy to mobilize the Puerto Rican community from social awareness to social action to social change.;The second chapter further expands on a genealogy of performance that was formalized by the emergence of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the seventies. I provide an artistic and cultural production history of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe by considering the theatrical and performative staging of Latino/a identities coming out of the Cafe during the post-Civil Rights struggle.;The next two chapters focus on contemporary Nuyorican practitioners, Caridad de la Luz, Mariposa, Nilija Sun, and Aya de Leon, who by fluctuating between performance genres, construct a feminist platform on which they can document, reflect, contest and re-imagine the histories of dissident communities. These artists in particular, transform the written word into living corporeal texts by embracing hip hop, poetry and theatre.;I conclude by venturing some observations about how the Nuyorican performance aesthetic has evolved into a universalizing model of identity, which approaches community as a network of social relations imagining and creating social kinships, literary affinities, and cultural affiliations. Such a strategy makes visible passageways that can potentially gather, connect, and incite people towards a greater social consciousness.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
