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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
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Sandra Ruiz |
ISBN: | 9781479890705 1479890707 |
OCLC Number: | 1103605965 |
Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 229 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction : a living colonialism, or simply, the aesthetic life of Ricanness -- Lipstick revolutionaries : Dolores 'Lolita' Lebrón Sotomayor and the site of Rican death -- Running out of time : Rican exhaustion, or Superman 51 -- Countdown to the future : the dread in the masses that are always already asses -- Looping sensations : on waiting with the existential Ryan Rivera -- Epilogue : a few more scenes on the unwanted, or a pause for the Rican future. |
Responsibility: | Sandra Ruiz. |
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At once challenging and generous, forcefully-argued and nuanced, Ruiz's work demonstrates how endurance, suspension, and waiting characterize Rican subjectivities, and how aesthetic performance both reveals and confronts the colonial (and postcolonial) logics that inform these subjectivities. * Social Text * [Ruiz] uses the example of Puerto Rico to push theory forward-challenging it, extending it, upending it. * Choice * Ruiz's relentless pressure on how fields of knowledge depend upon spatial containment eviscerates the collusion between epistemology and place. Her dazzling intellectualism models the necessarily daring edges one must seek out in discussions about aesthetics and politics. This beautifully written book encourages the demands of nonlinear thinking, the challenging pleasures of scholarship, and offers a more expansive sense of what activism can be. Ricanness is erudition for the people. -- Alexandra T. Vazquez, author of <i>Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music</i> Ricanness accomplishes a sustained dislocation of the hierarchies of the senses. It is an ontology of life and death, mixed with lipstick, champagne, sweat, vulgarity, and survival. It is a poetics of time and temporality. This poetics is worked out phenomenologically, aesthetically, and politically through the uncompromising stance Ruiz takes toward the violent history echoing across the unbroken Rican spirit. -- Tavia Nyong'o, author of <i>Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life</i> Read more...

