Nation on the move: the construction of cultural identities in Puerto Rico and the diaspora
Nation on the move: the construction of cultural identities in Puerto Rico and the diaspora
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移动中的国家：波多黎各和侨民文化身份的构建
DOI：
10.1525/ae.2000.27.1.5
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发表时间：
2000
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Jorge Duany
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作者：
Jorge Duany
在这篇文章中，我分析了最近关于波多黎各民族及其与美国持续的殖民关系的知识辩论。首先，我追溯了世纪岛上民族主义话语的发展，主要是知识分子，作家和艺术家。我确定了这种论述的几个问题，特别是从民族的定义中排除民族和种族的其他人。然后，我认为，任何严重的重新概念化的波多黎各身份必须包括散居在美国。我专注于岛上和美国大陆之间日益双边的人员流动，这被称为循环，通勤或旋转门移民。西班牙民间对这种来回运动的说法非常具有启发性：el vaiveYi（字面意思是波动）。La nacion en vaiven，这个正在移动的国家，可能是大西洋两岸波多黎各人流动和混合身份的一个恰当的比喻。我的论点是，大规模的移民-包括进出该岛的移民-已经破坏了完全基于领土、语言或司法标准的传统民族定义，[文化认同、散居、民族主义、跨国主义、循环移民、波多黎各人]
In this article, I analyze recent intellectual debates on the Puerto Rican nation and its persistent colonial relation with the United States. First, I trace the development of a nationalist discourse on the Island, primarily among intellectuals, writers, and artists during the 20th century. I identify several problems with this discourse, especially the exclusion of ethnic and racial others from its definition of the nation. Then I argue that any serious reconceptualization of Puerto Rican identity must include the diaspora in the United States. I focus on the increasingly bilateral flow of people between the Island and the U.S. mainland—what has come to be known as circular, commuter, or revolving door migration. The Spanish folk term for this back-and-forth movement is extremely suggestive: el vaiveYi (literally meaning fluctuation). La nacion en vaiven, the nation on the move, might serve as an apt metaphor for the fluid and hybrid identities of Puerto Ricans on both sides of the Atlantic. My thesis is that massive migration—both to and from the Island—has undermined conventional definitions of the nation based exclusively on territorial, linguistic, or juridical criteria, [cultural identity, diaspora, nationalism, transnationalism, circular migration, Puerto Ricans]