Kristie Soares: Playful Protest
Playful Protest
Buch
- The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media
- University of Illinois Press, 09/2023
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780252087424
- Bestellnummer: 11502327
- Umfang: 264 Seiten
- Gewicht: 426 g
- Maße: 229 x 152 mm
- Stärke: 30 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 5.9.2023
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
"Joy is a politicized form of pleasure that goes beyond gratification to challenge norms of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Kristie Soares focuses on the diasporic media of Puerto Rico and Cuba to examine how music, public activist demonstrations, social media, sitcoms, and other areas of culture resist the dominant stories told about Latinx joy. As she shows, Latinx creators compose versions of joy central to social and political struggle and at odds with colonialist and imperialist narratives that equate joy with political docility and a lack of intelligence. Soares builds her analysis around chapters that delve into gozando in salsa music, precise joy among the New Young Lords Party, choteo in the comedy ÅQuâe Pasa U. S.A.?, azâucar in the life and death of Celia Cruz, dale as Pitbull's signature affect, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's use of silliness to take seriously political violence"-- Kristie Soares
Playful Protest
EUR 32,96*