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Puro Arte - Filipinos on the Stages of Empire (Paperback)
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Puro Arte - Filipinos on the Stages of Empire (Paperback)
Series: Postmillennial Pop
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Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Book Award in Cultural Studies,
Association for Asian American Studies Puro Arte explores the
emergence of Filipino American theater and performance from the
early 20th century to the present. It stresses the Filipino
performing body's location as it conjoins colonial histories of the
Philippines with U.S. race relations and discourses of
globalization. Puro arte, translated from Spanish into English,
simply means "pure art." In Filipino, puro arte however performs a
much more ironic function, gesturing rather to the labor of
over-acting, histrionics, playfulness, and purely over-the-top
dramatics. In this book, puro arte functions as an episteme, a way
of approaching the Filipino/a performing body at key moments in
U.S.-Philippine imperial relations, from the 1904 St. Louis World's
Fair, early American plays about the Philippines, Filipino patrons
in U.S. taxi dance halls to the phenomenon of Filipino/a actors in
Miss Saigon. Using this varied archive, Puro Arte turns to
performance as an object of study and as a way of understanding
complex historical processes of racialization in relation to empire
and colonialism.
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