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Playful Protest: The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media

English

By (author): Kristie Soares

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 Pitbulls signature affect, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezs 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.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 567g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Sep 2023
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780252045295

About Kristie Soares

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

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