Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans Lesbian

Defending Their Own in the Cold: The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans LesbianMarc Zimmerman works from a theoretical frame of cultural, postcolonial, and diasporic studies to compare the artistic experiences and cultural production of Puerto Ricans with that of Chicanos and Cuban Americans. As he shows, even supposedly mainstream U. S. Puerto Ricans participate in a performative culture that embodies elements of possible cultural "Ricanstruction." Zimmerman examines a spectrum of U. S. Puerto Rican artistic life, including

her psychologist is useless

under the heavy smoke of bombing

thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug

and an artist's sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river

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He goes to school

who needs her help unjinxing his new house--which just happens to be right across the street from hers

foretelling an Age of Darkness and the birth of a new Prophet who could be the worlds salvation

built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds--a torture palace complete with dissection table

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FBI surveillance

and the darkness that consumed him