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Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad
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230 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 1997
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August 17, 2008
This book draws on Said's Orientalism to define Tropicalism. The collection of essays not only identify how Tropicalism operates as an oppressive force but how authors can employ it as an oppositional strategy .
What is Tropicalism?
"Clearly indebted to Said's 'orientalism,' the etymological correlative wtihin the Latino context would be 'tropicalism,' the system of ideological fictions (Said 321) with which the dominant (Anglo and European) cultures trope Latin American and U.S. Latino/a identities and cultures" (1).
Tropicalizations, according to the author are "overdetermined" for the Caribbean and must also be applied to Mexico, Latin America, and the United States.
By using tropicalizationS rather than tropicalization, the text foregrounds the multiple ways the trope can be employed and the agency of "subaltern subjects."
The collection pays particular attention to gender and sexuality.
What is Tropicalism?
"Clearly indebted to Said's 'orientalism,' the etymological correlative wtihin the Latino context would be 'tropicalism,' the system of ideological fictions (Said 321) with which the dominant (Anglo and European) cultures trope Latin American and U.S. Latino/a identities and cultures" (1).
Tropicalizations, according to the author are "overdetermined" for the Caribbean and must also be applied to Mexico, Latin America, and the United States.
By using tropicalizationS rather than tropicalization, the text foregrounds the multiple ways the trope can be employed and the agency of "subaltern subjects."
The collection pays particular attention to gender and sexuality.
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