Nuyorican Feminist Performance by Patricia HerreraCall Number: PS153.P83 H475 2020
ISBN: 9780472074488
Publication Date: 2020
The Nuyorican Poets Café has for the past 40 years provided a space for multicultural artistic expression and a platform for the articulation of Puerto Rican and Black cultural politics. The Café's performances--poetry, music, hip hop, comedy, and drama--have been studied in detail, but until now, little attention has been paid to the voices of its women artists. Through archival research and interviews, this book examines the contributions of 1970s and '80s performers and how they challenged the Café's gender politics.