UID:
almahu_9949597045102882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 207 pages) :
,
illustrations (black and white).
ISBN:
9781479808304 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Performance and American cultures
Content:
One could easily overlook the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a small, unassuming performance venue on New York City's Lower East Side. Yet the space once hosted the likes of Victor Hernandez Cruz, Allen Ginsberg, and Amiri Baraka and is widely credited as the homespace for the emergent nuyorican literary and aesthetic movement of the 1990s. Founded by a group of counterculturalist Puerto Rican immigrants and artists in the 1970s, the space slowly transformed the Puerto Rican ethnic and cultural associations of the epithet 'Nuyorican,' as the Cafe developed into a central hub for an artistic movement encompassing queer, trans, and diasporic performance. 'The Queer Nuyorican' is a queer genealogy and critical study of the term 'Nuyorican' shifted from a raced/ethnic identity marker to 'nuyorican', an aesthetic practice.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2021.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9781479808281
Language:
English
URL:
NYU scholarship online
