Balance, Christine Bacareza (2007) Intimate Acts, Martial Cultures: Performance and Belonging in Filipino America. Doctoral thesis, New York University.
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Intimate Acts, Martial Cultures: Performance and Belonging in Filipino America, looks at the types of aesthetic practices that are developed by Filipino Americans at the crossroads of violence, intimacy, and belonging. Focusing on three disparate sites of inquiry—queer Filipino American men's subcultural practices; recordings by DJ Qbert and the Invisibl Skratch Piklz; and the creation of Filipino American community-based theatres—taking place in California between the People Power movement and the end of the 20th century, my dissertation examines at the ways in which contemporary Filipino American cultural practices are shaped not only by the historical and intimate violences of U.S. imperialism but are also fueled by a polycultural project of belonging. Operating under and through various forms of martial cultures (War on Drugs, turntable battles, and Ferdinand Marcos' martial rule), these Filipino American performances are always-already collaborative, bringing to the forefront Filipino America's polycultural practices of art- and world-making. The key concepts of intimacy and belonging are mobilized throughout my dissertation as modes of thinking through and troubling strict categories of nationalism promulgated in traditional discussions of race and ethnicity.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | California, USA, cultural performance, cultural performance criticism, diaspora, DJ Qbert and the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Filipino-American identity, Filipino-American theatre, queer, theatre, theatre criticism |
| Depositing User: | Machine Whisperer |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jun 2017 05:59 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jun 2017 05:59 |
| URI: | http://philippineperformance-repository.upd.edu.ph/id/eprint/1590 |
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