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Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family - Framing Nation, Race, and Gender during the American Century (Hardcover)
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Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family - Framing Nation, Race, and Gender during the American Century (Hardcover)
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In this book, Hilda Llorens 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 Llorens
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, Llorens
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.
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