Sponsored identities
Subtitle: cultural politics in Puerto Rico
By: Arlene M. Dávila.
Series: Puerto Rican studies
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña; Culture -- Economic aspects -- Puerto Rico; Popular culture -- Puerto Rico -- Marketing; Ethnocentrism -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 20th century; Politics and culture -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 20th century; Puerto Rico -- Cultural policy -- History -- 20th century
Description: Focusing on the Institute for Puerto Rican Culture - the government institution charged with defining authenticated views of national identity since the 1950s - and on popular festival organizers, author Arlene M. Davila illuminates contestations over appropriate representations of culture in the increasingly mass-mediated context of contemporary Puerto Rico.

She examines the creation of an essentialist view of nationhood based on a peasant culture and a "unifying" Hispanic heritage and explores the ways in which grassroots organizations challenge and reconfigure definitions of national identity, through their own activities and representations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-294) and index.