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Puro Arte
Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns
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Description for Puro Arte
Paperback.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
205
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814725450
SKU
V9780814725450
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About Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns
Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Reviews for Puro Arte
[PuroArte] is foregrounded in deeply observed historical context and a well-measured assessment of culture and politics imbued with thoughtful and caring sentiment. Puro Arte is an important study not only for those with interest in theater studies but important for students and scholars of ethnic studies, postcolonial theory, and Asian American history.
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