The Incomplete Subject of Colonial Memory: Puerto Rico and the Post/Colonial Biopolitics of Congressional Recollection

Córdova, Nathaniel I.

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“…El Barrio's turn to cultural production and other tropicalizations as part of the available performative repertoire should, in some ways, come as no surprise given Puerto Rico's history as colonial subject and object (Cabán, 1999; Córdova, 2008; Grosfoguel, 2003; Santiago‐Valles, 1994). Negrón‐Muntaner (2004) suggests, for example, “the richness of boricua cultural production and discourse is, to a great extent, a result of the constraints placed upon Puerto Rican economic and political agency” (p. 5).…”

Section: Conclusion: Tropicalizations Rhetorical Agency and Culturmentioning

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Tropicalizing East Harlem: Rhetorical Agency, Cultural Citizenship, and Nuyorican Cultural Production

Enck-Wanzer

2011

Communication Theory

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By critically engaging various forms of cultural production/material culture in El Barrio/East Harlem, New York, this article challenges communication scholars to explore the relationship between agency and identity, expanding our theoretical understandings of rhetorical agency in Latina/o contexts. This article argues that everyday spaces evidence a tactical, tropicalized rhetorical agency that underwrites cultural citizenship in El Barrio. Casitas, gardens, flags, and murals ''make do'' with the fissures of the built environment to craft literal and figurative spaces for/of a diasporic and unofficial Nuyorican culture. The rhetorical production of culture enacts a kind of tropicalization-a troping that imbues rhetorical scenes with an indelibly Latina/o ethos-which accents everyday material forms in East Harlem and demonstrates productive forms of cultural citizenship.

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Section: Conclusion: Tropicalizations Rhetorical Agency and Culturmentioning

confidence: 99%