Date of Award
Spring 5-23-2006
Degree Type
Capstone Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Studies (BA)
Department
Cultural Studies
Abstract
This project illuminates the relationship between cultural resistance, cultural production, and cultural identity in the poetry of Puerto Ricans in New York (“Nuyoricans”). Through textual analysis, informal interviews, and participant observation conducted in the South Bronx, this project is interested in how the descriptions of the island as “home” are used to mediate a cultural or ethnic identity, particularly amongst a people who do not live there, or perhaps never have. While the construction of an ethnic identity and a conceptual homeland in a diasporic community has been studied in past research, the intention here is to elaborate upon the themes that previous studies have noted and to add an element that is essential: that of the subject’s voice.
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Recommended Citation
Hooper, Courtney, "Mining the Meaning of Collective Memory and Imagination: The Construction of Identity in the Puerto Rican Diaspora" (2006). Cultural Studies Capstone Papers. 34.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cultural_studies/34
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