{"product_id":"ricanness-9781479825684","title":"Ricanness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHonorable Mention, 2020 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArgues that Ricanness operates as a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1954, Dolores “Lolita” Lebrón and other members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party led a revolutionary action on the chambers of Congress, firing several shots at the ceiling and calling for the independence of the island.\u003ci\u003e Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance\u003c\/i\u003e begins with Lebrón’s vanguard act, distilling the relationship between Puerto Rican subjectivity, gender, sexuality, and revolutionary performance under colonial time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuiz argues that Ricanness—a continual performance of bodily endurance against US colonialism through different measures of time—uncovers what’s at stake politically for the often unwanted, anticolonial, racialized and sexualized enduring body. Moving among theatre, experimental video, revolutionary protest, photography, poetry, and durational performance art, \u003ci\u003eRicanness \u003c\/i\u003estages scenes in which the philosophical, social, and psychic come together at the site of aesthetics, against the colonization of time. Analyzing the work of artists and revolutionaries like ADÁL, Lebrón, Papo Colo, Pedro Pietri, and Ryan Rivera, \u003ci\u003eRicanness \u003c\/i\u003eimagines a Rican future through the time travel extended in their aesthetic interventions, illustrating how they have reformulated time itself through nonlinear aesthetic practices.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sandra Ruiz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48273416782075,"sku":"9781479825684","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_0e211919-1708-4a27-9912-32bccf4e8fa3.jpg?v=1777695416","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/ricanness-9781479825684","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}