Puro Arte: Filipinos on the Stages of Empire

by Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns

Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Book Award in Cultural Studies, Association for Asian American Studies

Puro Arte explores the emergence of Filipino American theater 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814744435
• ISBN13: 9780814744437
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"