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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Nuyorican"”.
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Destabilizing the Nuyorican: <i>Rivera’s Women</i> and Nuyorican Cinema
… José Rivera as part of my research on Nuyorican Cinema, the films of the Puerto Rican Diaspora.</p> <p>An unknown part of U.S. independent cinema, these diasporic films destabilize the way independent films continue to be categorized through gender, race, ethnicity, and language. Using …
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Traditions and Transformations in the Work of Adál: Surrealism, <i>El sainete</i>, and Spanglish
<p>The Nuyorican movement was a cultural and intellectual movement beginning in the late 1960s through the 1970s that coincided with the era of civil rights struggle in the United States. The artists, writers, poets, and others in the movement were of Puerto Rican descent and resided in New York …
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THE INFLUENCE OF SALSA IN THE CELLO WORKS OF WILLIAM ORTIZ
… in his interest to connect his experiences as a Nuyorican in the 1950s and 1960s to his compositional aesthetics. Ortiz’s works for cello are examined by identifying stylistic influences of salsa and the way in which the composer incorporates them into his music. This document begins by …
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From Bushwick to Portland: Bori Girls of the Diaspora Revolutionizing the Puerto Rican Coming-of-Age Narrative
… In their respective texts, When We Make It: A Nuyorican Novel and Juliet Takes a Breath, Velasquez and Rivera highlight the liminal spaces between the distant motherland that is Puerto Rico and the repressive colonial entity that is the United States. Moreover, the protagonists of each text, …
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Mira Muchacha: The Latinx Bildungsroman in Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X
… her performance of her poems at New York City’s Nuyorican Poets Café.</p>
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Raphael Montañez Ortiz and Alternative Art Spaces, 1966–1971: From Repulsion to Exaltation
<p>In the 1960s, Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz built a successful and provocative career in New York. Throughout the decade, Ortiz created sculptures, performances, and events that were part of a sustained investigation into how embodied destructive and uncomfortable …