Ricanness

Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance

Bibliographic Data

ID20007154
AuthorsSandra Ruiz (0000-0001-6011-418X, corresponding author)
Year2020
Pages256
Publication date2020-01-23
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueRicanness (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherNew York University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18574/nyu/9781479888740.001.0001
OpenAlexW4233310111
Open LibraryOL28708868M
ISBN9781479888740
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This book argues that Ricanness is a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialism, unfolding via aesthetic interventions in time. Uncovering what’s at stake politically for the often unwanted, colonized, racialized, and sexualized enduring body, Ricanness moves among theater, experimental video, revolutionary protest, photography, poetry, and durational performance art. Ricanness stages scenes in which the philosophical, social, and psychic merge at the site of aesthetics and temporality. Analyzing the work of artists and revolutionaries like ADÁL, Dolores “Lolita” Lebrón, Papo Colo, Pedro Pietri, and Ryan Rivera, Ricanness imagines a Rican future through the time travel extended in these artists’ and activists’ work, illustrating how they reformulate time itself through nonlinear aesthetic practices. Either stopping or waiting with time, or running from exhaustion, or dragging the spectator through dread and despair, all of these artists and activists live at the horizon of existence. Consequently, Ricanness reshifts the colonization of time and normative assumptions of death through spaces of negation, incompletion, violence, and endurance, alongside moments of pleasure and redemption. Theorizing an existential entry into the Rican future, Ricanness traverses aesthetic strategies and nonlinear time

Computer Science · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American Literature Studies · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Art, puerto rican · Group identity in art · Postcolonialism · Postcolonialism and the arts · Puerto Rican Arts · Themes, motives · Time and art

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