Playful Protest

The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media

Kristie Soares (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2023
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04529-5 (ISBN)

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Pleasure-based politics in Puerto Rican and Cuban pop culture 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 ¿Qué Pasa U.S.A.?, azúcar 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.

Daring and original, Playful Protest examines how Latinx creators resist the idea that joy only exists outside politics and activist struggle.

Kristie Soares is an assistant professor of women and gender studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Acknowledgments Introduction: Dancing in My Parents’ Living Room and Other Stories About Joy

Gozando: Gendered Discourses of Pleasure in Early Salsa
Precise Joy: The Gendered Performance of Affect in the Young Lords Party
Choteo and the Family Sitcom: Poking Fun at Cuban Masculinities in ¿Qué Pasa U.S.A.?
Dancing with Death: Celia Cruz’s Azúcar and Queer of Color Survival
Dale: Queer Racialized Excess in Pitbull’s Miami

Coda Politicized Silliness in a Time of Crisis: Notes on Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Erscheinungsdatum	06.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Feminist Media Studies
Zusatzinfo	23 color photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-04529-7 / 0252045297
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04529-5 / 9780252045295
Zustand	Neuware