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Imaging the Great Puerto Rican Family
Framing Nation, Race, and Gender during the American Century
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2014
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In Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century, Hilda Lloréns 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 Lloréns 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, Lloréns 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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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8918-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8919-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
260
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Contents No access
List of Abbreviations No access
List of Illustrations No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction. Looking Into the Frame No access
CHAPTER ONE. Imaging Puerto Rican Natives, 1890–1920 No access Pages 1 - 30
CHAPTER TWO. Building a “Photographic Case” for the Rehabilitation of the Colony, 1930s No access Pages 31 - 58
CHAPTER THREE. The Emergence of Black Puerto Ricans in Portraiture, 1930s No access Pages 59 - 76
CHAPTER FOUR. Setting the Stage for Mid-Twentieth-Century Imagery of Puerto Rico, 1920–1951 No access Pages 77 - 108
CHAPTER FIVE. The Rise of Cultural Nationalism and Filmic Narratives of Blackness, 1948–1970 No access Pages 109 - 146
CHAPTER SIX. Dynamics of the 1970s: National and Racial Transfigurations No access Pages 147 - 178
CHAPTER SEVEN. What the American Century has Wrought: Puerto Rican Images in the Late Twentieth Century No access Pages 179 - 228
Epilogue: Representing Puerto Rico during the American Century No access Pages 229 - 232
