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Puro Arte explores the emergence of Filipino American theatre and performance from the early 20th century to the present. It stresses the Filipino performing body's location as it conjoins colonial histories of the Philippines with U.S. race relations and discourses of globalization. Puro arte, translated from Spanish into English, simply means "pure art." In Filipino, puro arte however performs a much more ironic function, gesturing rather to the labour of over-acting, histrionics, playfulness, and purely over-the-top dramatics. In this book, puro arte functions as an episteme, a way of approaching the Filipino/a performing body at key moments in U.S.-Philippine imperial relations, from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, early American plays about the Philippines, Filipino patrons in U.S. taxi dance halls to the phenomenon of Filipino/a actors in Miss Saigon. Using this varied archive, Puro Arte turns to performance as an object of study and as a way of understanding complex historical processes of racialization in relation to empire and colonialism.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Puro Arte
• Subtitle: Filipinos on the Stages of Empire
• Author: Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 205
• EAN: 9780814725450
• ISBN: 0814725457
• ID: 04931131
• Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 324 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 155 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. December 2012

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