DOCSLIB.ORG

UC San Diego UC San Diego Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
UC San Diego UC San Diego Electronic Theses and Dissertations UC San Diego UC San Diego Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Speaking bodies : body bilinguality and code-switching in Latina/o performance Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1wf8v1h1 Author Power, Jade Y. Publication Date 2012 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE Speaking Bodies: Body Bilinguality and Code-switching in Latina/o Performance A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the degree requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Drama and Theatre by Jade Y. Power Committee in Charge: University of California, San Diego Professor Jorge A. Huerta, Chair Professor Nadine George-Graves Professor Rosemary George Professor Emily Roxworthy University of California, Irvine Professor Frank B. Wilderson III 2012 The dissertation of Jade Y. Power is approved, and it is acceptable in quality and form for publication on microfilm and electronically: _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Chair University of California, San Diego University of California, Irvine 2012 iii DEDICATION This dissertation is dedicated with great love and respect to my partner José who accompanies me in my daily acts of code-switching, integrating and anchoring the many worlds through which we together move; to my parents Vivian and Jack and my sister Taína for teaching me about bilinguality; and finally, to Amaury for helping me in these last months to daily rediscover and understand my own embodied self. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Signature Page……………………………………………………………… iii Dedication………………………………………………………………….. iv Table of Contents…………………………………………………………... v List of Figures……………………………………………………………… vi Acknowledgments…………………………………………………………… vii Vita ………………………………………………………………………… viii Abstract …………………………………………………………………..... ix Introduction: Speaking Bodies………………………..……………………. 1 Chapter One: The Bilingual, Code-switching Body….…………………….. 17 Chapter Two: The Bilingual and Code-switching Body Onstage: Spanglish/Dominicanish, Puerto Rico/New York…..………………………. 55 Chapter Three: Facing the Island: Teatro Diplo, Blackface Performance and National Identity in Puerto Rico……………………………………..…..….. 112 Chapter Four: ¡Habla!: Speaking Bodies and Puerto Rican Bomba… in California………………………………………………………………..... 170 Conclusion: …………………………………….…………………………..... 238 Works Cited………………………………………………………………….. 245 v LIST OF FIGURES Figure 4.1: Facebook logo for Teatro Diplo…………………………………… 145 Figure 4.2: Statue in Naguabo built in honor of Ramón Rivero.……………… 154 vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to acknowledge the many people who have helped me grow as a scholar and an intellectual, an artist and a writer. Sally Miller Gearhart was the first person I knew to have a PhD, and those long conversations in the car, in our family living room or chopping wood have often surfaced in the process of writing this dissertation. I am eternally indebted to my mentor Jorge Huerta who was the first person to make me believe I could complete a PhD and who has shepherded me through the process with unmatched kindness and devotion, serving as an inspiration for what a teacher and a mentor should be. I am thankful to my many peers, colleagues and students who have always generously provided advice, insight, and moral support: from the CILAS women to all the folks in the Theater and Dance Promotions/Theatre Forum Office, especially my dear friend and colleague Megan Strom whose special brand of humor mixed with honesty and love got me through some of the most challenging moments in these last years. I am also deeply grateful for the San Diego bomba community who has anchored me in this process, never allowing me to become disconnected from children and elders, music and dance, and my own dancing body. Finally, I am grateful to my partner José who has served as my greatest teacher in graduate school, my greatest intellectual and emotional support. Sin ti nada de esto sería posible. vii VITA 1996-2000 Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Santa Cruz 2004-2006 Master of Arts, University of California, San Diego 2006-2012 Doctor of Philosophy, University of California San Diego viii ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Speaking Bodies: Body Bilinguality and Code-switching in Latina/o Performance by Jade Y. Power Doctor of Philosophy in Drama and Theatre University of California, San Diego 2012 University of California, Irvine 2012 Professor Jorge A. Huerta, Chair In the last decades, there has been a proliferation of scholarship on embodiment and the body in performance. Likewise, the politics of language and the representation of hybrid, mestizo identities have been central in the study of Latina/o theater and performance. However, few scholars have attempted to discuss how the body works in relationship to bilingualism itself. In this dissertation, I argue that the body itself speaks and is thus a maker of meaning, just as it also receives and processes information. In looking at the specific sites of inquiry for this study, I show how the body articulates an argument that situates the performing subject in a web of intersectional identities, ix demonstrating how identities are produced through movement itself. The “speaking body” both draws upon and circumvents our understanding of language as a logocentric process and also as the principle way through which identity is perceived and the self is made knowable. Thus, I address theories of social construction that help us question the essential and fixed link between language and identity, while also insisting that the politics of language, in this case spoken and corporeal, continue to matter in very important ways. In doing so, I analyze how the performing, code-switching body can reveal racial construction, enact the contradictions of mestizaje, queer the way in which Latinidad is read through lenses of gender and sexuality, and finally, privilege the embodied experience of “bilinguality” over logocentric understandings of bilingualism. Looking at the work of primarily Puerto Rican performers, I engage this concept across a variety of performative registers, including solo performance, historical blackface performance, and the traditional Puerto Rican dance practice of bomba. I demonstrate that there are instances where the code-switching body re-enacts hierarchical power relations, and yet it in doing so, makes visible how power is enacted on and through the body in performance. Body bilinguality is thus a strategy for moving between and across codes of meaning-making, contesting narratives of fractured subjectivity through embodiment, and resisting hegemonic systems of representation, revealing sites of relative privilege and oppression. x Introduction Speaking Bodies US Latina/o subjects are imagined and imagine themselves through a multitude of lenses: hybrid, code-switching, mestizo/o, bilingual, transcultural, transnational, circulating around and across borders, moving, yet fixed in a perpetual state of in- between-ness, caught in the web of nationalisms, post-coloniality and internal colonization, between constructs of hyper-femininity and exaggerated masculinity, between not-quite-white and always already brown/black, simultaneously la virgen and la puta, la chingada and el conquistador,1 using embodied practices to confront, engage, and contest narratives of genocide, slavery, immigration, and to recount the stories of survival. This dissertation is an effort to interrogate and understand these slippery constructs, this complex set of relations, through specific embodied performances that demonstrate the use of what I have termed the “code-switching body.” In doing so, I not only theorize the many discursive levels of signification the Latina/o body encounters and employs, but also re-imagine the body as a site for meaning-making that is simultaneously an object upon which social construction is enacted, as well as a subject with experience and individual agency. Privileging the speaking body in this process is particularly important given the binary framework through which ontologies of Latina/o subjects are so often read, a framework that inevitably finds recourse in other problematic dualities upon which much of traditional humanist ideology is constructed: nature/culture, sacred/profane, male/female, and most importantly, mind/body. My work in this project, therefore, is an attempt to inscribe a counter-discourse of bodily 1 “the virgin (feminine), the whore (feminine), the fucked one (feminine), the conquerer (masculine)” 1 2 subjectivity. Despite the fact that I am attempting to accomplish this through the logocentric act of writing, something that has “paradoxically come to stand in for and against embodiment” (Taylor, Archive 16), I aim, through writing, to corporeally invade and occupy ongoing conversations about identity. My goal is to contribute to discourse about Latina/o performance, not by discussing the body object of the marginalized subject, but rather by foregrounding the marginalized subject as experienced through the body. Having grown up in a completely bi-cultural, bilingual household, moving to California from Puerto Rico at age seven,
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Newsletter Winter 2005
    Max Kade Institute Friends Newsletter VOLUME 14 NUMBER 4 • WINTER 2005 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–MADISON, 901 UNIVERSITY BAY DR., MADISON, WI 53705 “How German Is American?” WHAT'S INSIDE: MKI presents new outreach Directors' Corner. poster and brochure Page 2 By Mark Louden MKI Co-Director Friends Profile: West Bend Art Museum Director Tom Many of our Friends will recall the posters on the German heritage in Lidtke. the United States designed some years ago by MKI founding director Page 3 Prof. Jürgen Eichhoff. Building on the popular appeal of such visual explorations of German-American culture, this year we undertook a new How Gertrude Bloede educational and outreach project titled “How German Is American?” This became an American poet. project has three components: a 36” by 48” poster, a 48-page compan- Page 5 ion brochure, and a Web page linked to the MKI Web site. The funding for this project was provided by the Pages from Consulate General of the Federal Re- the Past: public of Germany in Chicago. The A German- design and production for the poster American and brochure were handled by Nancy meets with Henry Long- Zucker of Madison, who has designed fellow. the covers for our MKI and CSUMC Page 6 monographs for the last several years. Collection Featured on the poster are twenty Feature: images that evoke various ways BookLet's Review: go to The Lost Ger- manthe Slave World's Girl . German-speaking immigrants to Fair! Page 8 the U.S. and their descendants have Page 10 contributed to and been influenced by other American cultures.
    [Show full text]
  • Information to Users
    INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. In the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if unauthorized copyright material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Oversize materials (e.g., maps, drawings, charts) are reproduced by sectioning the original, beginning at the upper left-hand comer and continuing from left to right in equal sections with small overlaps. Each original is also photographed in one exposure and is included in reduced form at the back of the book. Photographs included in the original manuscript have been reproduced xerographically in this copy. Higher quality 6” x 9” black and white photographic prints are available for any photographs or illustrations appearing in this copy for an additional charge. Contact UMI directly to order. UMI A Bell & Howell Infonnation Company 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor MI 48106-1346 USA 313/761-4700 800/521-0600 KLÀNNISHNESS AND THE KU KLUX KLAN: THE RHETORIC AND ETHICS OF GENRE THEORY DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Brian Robert McGee, B.S., M.S.
    [Show full text]
  • Colección De Micropelículas
    CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES HISTÓRICAS UNIVERSIDAD DE PUERTO RICO RECINTO DE RÍO PIEDRAS FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES GUÍA DE LOS FONDOS DOCUMENTALES EXISTENTES EN EL CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES HISTÓRICAS DRA. MARÍA DE LOS ÁNGELES CASTRO ARROYO REVISADA, AUMENTADA Y CORREGIDA POR: YADIRA I. TIRADO AGOSTO MAGALIS CINTRÓN BUTLER SEPTIEMBRE 2015 2 ARCHIVO Y CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN INSTITUCIÓN ACADÉMICA Centro de Investigaciones Históricas DIRECCIÓN POSTAL: P. O. Box 22802 San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00931-2802 DIRECCIÓN FÍSICA: Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto de Río Piedras Facultad de Humanidades Edificio Sebastián González García Primer Piso TELÉFONO: 787-764-0000 ext. 3748 FAX: (787) 772-1453, 772-1461 CORREO ELECTRÓNICO: [email protected] WEB SITE: http://cih.upr.edu HORARIO DE SERVICIO: lunes a viernes 8:00am-12:00pm* 1:00pm-4:30pm *No se sirven recursos de 12:00 p.m. a 1:00 p.m., pero los investigadores pueden continuar utilizándolos, si están servidos previamente. MISIÓN O PROPÓSITO DE LA INSTITUCIÓN: El CIH constituye un repositorio documental y biblográfico que rebasa los límites de una visión histórica localista. Como pieza vital del Programa Graduado de Historia, el CIH ha ido acrecentado el acervo de fuentes primarias y secundarias que sirvan al propósito de fomentar la producción de tesis y publicaciones, encaminadas al estudio comparativo de otras áreas del escenario caribeño. Además de cumplir con funciones archivísticas, el CIH genera sus propios proyectos de investigación, auspicia foros, conferencias, seminarios, coloquios y talleres, y se ocupa de difundir las investigaciones realizadas por estudiosos de la historia de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, mediante la publicación de libros y artículos.
    [Show full text]
  • RIVERFRONT CIRCULATING MATERIALS (Can Be Checked Out)
    SLAVERY BIBLIOGRAPHY TOPICS ABOLITION AMERICAN REVOLUTION & SLAVERY AUDIO-VISUAL BIOGRAPHIES CANADIAN SLAVERY CIVIL WAR & LINCOLN FREE AFRICAN AMERICANS GENERAL HISTORY HOME LIFE LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN SLAVERY LAW & SLAVERY LITERATURE/POETRY NORTHERN SLAVERY PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SLAVERY/POST-SLAVERY RELIGION RESISTANCE SLAVE NARRATIVES SLAVE SHIPS SLAVE TRADE SOUTHERN SLAVERY UNDERGROUND RAILROAD WOMEN ABOLITION Abolition and Antislavery: A historical encyclopedia of the American mosaic Hinks, Peter. Greenwood Pub Group, c2015. 447 p. R 326.8 A (YRI) Abolition! : the struggle to abolish slavery in the British Colonies Reddie, Richard S. Oxford : Lion, c2007. 254 p. 326.09 R (YRI) The abolitionist movement : ending slavery McNeese, Tim. New York : Chelsea House, c2008. 142 p. 973.71 M (YRI) 1 The abolitionist legacy: from Reconstruction to the NAACP McPherson, James M. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1975. 438 p. 322.44 M (YRI) All on fire : William Lloyd Garrison and the abolition of slavery Mayer, Henry, 1941- New York : St. Martin's Press, c1998. 707 p. B GARRISON (YWI) Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery Metaxas, Eric New York, NY : Harper, c2007. 281p. B WILBERFORCE (YRI, YWI) American to the backbone : the life of James W.C. Pennington, the fugitive slave who became one of the first black abolitionists Webber, Christopher. New York : Pegasus Books, c2011. 493 p. B PENNINGTON (YRI) The Amistad slave revolt and American abolition. Zeinert, Karen. North Haven, CT : Linnet Books, c1997. 101p. 326.09 Z (YRI, YWI) Angelina Grimke : voice of abolition. Todras, Ellen H., 1947- North Haven, Conn. : Linnet Books, c1999. 178p. YA B GRIMKE (YWI) The antislavery movement Rogers, James T.
    [Show full text]
  • Modern First Ladies: Their Documentary Legacy. INSTITUTION National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC
    DOCUMENT RESUME ED 412 562 CS 216 046 AUTHOR Smith, Nancy Kegan, Comp.; Ryan, Mary C., Comp. TITLE Modern First Ladies: Their Documentary Legacy. INSTITUTION National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC. ISBN ISBN-0-911333-73-8 PUB DATE 1989-00-00 NOTE 189p.; Foreword by Don W. Wilson (Archivist of the United States). Introduction and Afterword by Lewis L. Gould. Published for the National Archives Trust Fund Board. PUB TYPE Collected Works General (020) -- Historical Materials (060) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC08 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Archives; *Authors; *Females; Modern History; Presidents of the United States; Primary Sources; Resource Materials; Social History; *United States History IDENTIFIERS *First Ladies (United States); *Personal Writing; Public Records; Social Power; Twentieth Century; Womens History ABSTRACT This collection of essays about the Presidential wives of the 20th century through Nancy Reagan. An exploration of the records of first ladies will elicit diverse insights about the historical impact of these women in their times. Interpretive theories that explain modern first ladies are still tentative and exploratory. The contention in the essays, however, is that whatever direction historical writing on presidential wives may follow, there is little question that the future role of first ladies is more likely to expand than to recede to the days of relatively silent and passive helpmates. Following a foreword and an introduction, essays in the collection and their authors are, as follows: "Meeting a New Century: The Papers of Four Twentieth-Century First Ladies" (Mary M. Wolf skill); "Not One to Stay at Home: The Papers of Lou Henry Hoover" (Dale C.
    [Show full text]
  • San Juan, the Fragile City: Finance Capital, Class, and the Making of Puerto Rico’S Economic Crisis
    A Radical Journal of Geography San Juan, the Fragile City: Finance Capital, Class, and the Making of Puerto Rico’s Economic Crisis Joaquın Villanueva1 Department of Geography, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN, USA; [email protected] Martın Cobian 2 Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, USA Felix Rodrıguez3 El Local de Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico Abstract: This paper narrates Puerto Rico’s fiscal and financial crisis through a reading of San Juan’s urban landscape. We underscore the role of capital in the city, primarily embodied by the local capitalist class (the Criollo bloc) and foreign capitalists. Histori- cally excluded from the manufacturing sector (dominated by US capitalists), the Criollo bloc accumulates its wealth by concentrating financial assets in the city. In times of cri- sis, the Criollo bloc resorts to the acquisition of new assets and asset exchange with for- eign capitalists to remain solvent and provide short-term solutions to the state’s fiscal and financial limits. The survival of the local capitalist class, we demonstrate, is depen- dent on asset stripping. Drawing on Clyde Woods, we document how asset stripping unevenly redistributes wealth and risks along class and racial lines within a colonial economy. The finance capital/asset stripping basis of San Juan’s economy renders it an extremely fragile city, we contend. Keywords: fragile city, finance capital, asset stripping, Criollo bloc, public debt, San Juan Introduction San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, is a fragile city. Its fragility was in full display as two devastating hurricanes in the fall 2017—Irma and Marıa—tore through the Island,1 further weakening the fragile economic, social and infrastructural net- works that supported the city.
    [Show full text]
  • CAP Puerto Rican Survey
    Center for American Progress Action Fund Survey of the Puerto Rican Electorate in U.S. in 2020 Thank you for participating in this survey. All of your answers are completely confidential and anonymous. Please answer every question as truthfully as possible. This is not a race! Take your time to read each question and provide your honest opinion. Thank you very much. SCREENS S1. Do you prefer that we speak in English or Spanish? English ...................................................................................... 71 Spanish ..................................................................................... 29 S2. In order to get a representative sample of all people, what state do you currently live in? DROP DOWN ALL 50 STATES + DC {note to programmer: list states in this order: Florida, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Texas, Georgia, Connecticut and then alphabetical for the rest} N=200 oversample in PA S2_HISP [IF S2_RACE = 2/6] Do you consider any part of your ethnicity to be Hispanic or Latino, or your family ancestry traced to countries in Latin America? Yes, Hispanic or Latino ......................................................................... 100 [CONTINUE] No, not Hispanic or Latino ................................................................... 0 [TERMINATE] S5. Great, now just to make sure you are eligible to take part in our survey; can you confirm that you are 18 or over? Yes [CONTINUE] ....................................................................... 100 No
    [Show full text]
  • Similarites Et Differences: L'esclavage En Louisiane Et Aux Antilles
    SIMILARITES ET DIFFERENCES: L’ESCLAVAGE EN LOUISIANE ET AUX ANTILLES Partenariat d’échange Louisiana State Université – Université des Antilles Recherches aux bilbiothèques Middleton et Memorial Hill de Louisiana State University sous la direction du Dr. Alexandre Leupin et du Dr. Jean-Pierre Sainton Avec le concours de Maëva dite “Maddyjah” Augusty, Jacey Flatte, Patrica Gros- Désirs, Lina Marie-Sainte, Tomás Martin, Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette, John Patin, Mathilde Pointière, Sally Stainier, Maria Anna Zazzarino Edition par Lina Marie-Sainte et Mathilde Pointière Sommaire Introduction générale ............................................................................................................ 4 Histoire ................................................................................................................................. 5 Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 5 1. La vie sur la plantation................................................................................................... 5 1.1. Etats-Unis .................................................................................................................. 5 1.2. Antilles ....................................................................................................................... 5 1.3. Antilles et Etats-Unis .................................................................................................. 6 2. La colonisation et l’esclavage ........................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • How Mixed-Race Americans Navigated the Racial Codes of Antebellum America
    James Madison University JMU Scholarly Commons Masters Theses, 2020-current The Graduate School 5-7-2020 Under cover of lightness: How mixed-race Americans navigated the racial codes of Antebellum America Alexander Brooks Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/masters202029 Part of the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Brooks, Alexander, "Under cover of lightness: How mixed-race Americans navigated the racial codes of Antebellum America" (2020). Masters Theses, 2020-current. 48. https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/masters202029/48 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the The Graduate School at JMU Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses, 2020-current by an authorized administrator of JMU Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Under Cover of Lightness: How Mixed-Race Americans Navigated the Racial Codes of Antebellum America Alex Brooks A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Department of History May 2020 FACULTY COMMITTEE: Committee Chair: Rebecca Brannon Committee Members/ Readers: Gabrielle Lanier David Owusu-Ansah Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Miscegenation 3. North 4. Upper South 5. Lower South 6. 1850s Turbulence 7. Liberia 8. Conclusion ii Abstract This thesis investigates the way people of mixed “racial” ancestry—known as mulattoes in the 18th and 19th centuries—navigated life in deeply racially divided society. Even understanding “mulatto strategies” is difficult because it is to study a group shrouded in historical ambiguity by choice.
    [Show full text]
  • A HISTORY of the AMERICAN LEAGUE for PUERTO RICO INDEPENDENCE, 1944-1950 a Thesis by MANUEL A
    TRANSNATIONAL FREEDOM MOVEMENTS: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN LEAGUE FOR PUERTO RICO INDEPENDENCE, 1944-1950 A Thesis by MANUEL ANTONIO GRAJALES, II Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University-Commerce in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS August 2015 TRANSNATIONAL FREEDOM MOVEMENTS: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN LEAGUE FOR PUERTO RICAN INDEPENDENCE, 1944-1950 A Thesis by MANUEL ANTONIO GRAJALES, II Approved by: Advisor: Jessica Brannon-Wranosky Committee: William F. Kuracina Eugene Mark Moreno Head of Department: Judy A. Ford Dean of the College: Salvatore Attardo Dean of Graduate Studies: Arlene Horne iii Copyright © 2015 Manuel Antonio Grajales II iv ABSTRACT TRANSNATIONAL FREEDOM MOVEMENTS: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN LEAGUE FOR PUERTO RICO INDEPENDENCE, 1944-1950 Manuel Grajales, MA Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2015 Advisor: Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, PhD A meeting in 1943 between Puerto Rican nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos and a group of U.S. pacifists initiated a relationship built on shared opposition to global imperialism. The association centered on the status of Puerto Rico as a colonial possession of the United States. The nationalists argued that Puerto Rico the island’s definition as a U.S. possession violated their sovereignty and called for aggressive resistance against the United States after attempting to initiate change through the electoral process in 1930. Campos developed his brand of nationalism through collaborations with independence activists from India and Ireland while a student at Harvard. Despite the Puerto Rican nationalists’ rhetorically aggressive stance against U.S. imperialism, conversation occurred with groups of Americans who disapproved of their country’s imperial objective.
    [Show full text]
  • Isolation on and Off the Island: the Politics of Displacement in Contemporary Spanish Caribbean Fiction
    ISOLATION ON AND OFF THE ISLAND: THE POLITICS OF DISPLACEMENT IN CONTEMPORARY SPANISH CARIBBEAN FICTION By Gretchen Susan Selcke Dissertation Submitted by the Faculty of the Graduate School of Vanderbilt University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Spanish August, 2015 Nashville, Tennessee Approved: William Luis, Ph.D. Cathy L. Jrade, Ph.D. Benigno Trigo, Ph.D. Lorraine M. López, Ph.D. Copyright © 2015 by Gretchen Susan Selcke All Rights Reserved To my husband Phil for his unwavering love and support and To my daughter Belén Amanda iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work would not have been possible without Vanderbilt University’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese. I am grateful for financial support from Vanderbilt’s Graduate Select Scholars Award, the Center for the Americas’ Fellowship, the Library Dean’s Fellowship for the Manuel Zapata Olivella Correspondence Collection, and the E. Inman Fox Graduate Teaching Award. These awards and fellowships, among others, helped me to complete this project. I am especially indebted to Professor William Luis, my first and greatest champion. He is a wonderful mentor and scholar whose lasting contributions to Latino Studies shape the field. Thank you to Professor Cathy Jrade, who as Department Chair for most of my tenure at Vanderbilt, provided guidance and set an example of professional excellence. To Professor Benigno Trigo, thank you for your careful attention and support. To Professor Lorraine López, thank you for your encouragement and willingness to support graduate education. My committee has been tested, and I am forever in their debt. I am grateful to all of those with whom I have had the honor to work during this and other projects.
    [Show full text]
  • Puerto Rican Natural Support Systems
    University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014 1-1-1986 Puerto Rican natural support systems : the feasibility of first mobilizing natural support systems to help Puerto Rican children with school problems prior to referral for special services : a case study of Holyoke, Massachusetts. W. Sydney Stern University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1 Recommended Citation Stern, W. Sydney, "Puerto Rican natural support systems : the feasibility of first mobilizing natural support systems to help Puerto Rican children with school problems prior to referral for special services : a case study of Holyoke, Massachusetts." (1986). Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014. 4234. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1/4234 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PUERTO RICAN NATURAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS The Feasibility of First Mobilizing Natural Support Systems To Help Puerto Rican Children With School Problems Prior to Referral for Special Services: A Case Study of Holyoke, Massachusetts A Dissertation Presented By W. SYDNEY STERN Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 1986 School of Education Copyright by Willa Sydney Stern 1986 All Rights Reserved ii PUERTO RICAN NATURAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS The Feasibility of First Mobilizing Natural Support Systems to Help Puerto Rican Children With School Problems Prior to Referral for Special Services: A Case Study of Holyoke, Massachusetts A Dissertation Presented By W.
    [Show full text]