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[The Accidental Crit I:] Literature And Arts As Antisubordination Praxis Latcrit Theory And Cultural Production: The Confessions Of An Accidental Crit, Pedro A. Malavet
[The Accidental Crit I:] Literature And Arts As Antisubordination Praxis Latcrit Theory And Cultural Production: The Confessions Of An Accidental Crit, Pedro A. Malavet
Pedro A. Malavet
This short article: (1) explains the development the Arts Panel at the LatCrit IV Conference and provides an account of its substantive content; (2) it gives the author's reactions to the presentations, while placing them within the planned description and written questions, locating them within the contemporary debate over the use of narrative in legal scholarship and in postmodern philosophical discourse more generally; and (3) the author gives a narrative about his own reluctant, difficult, and ultimately accidental gravitation towards LatCrit theory.
Puerto Rico: Cultural Nation, American Colony, Pedro A. Malavet
Puerto Rico: Cultural Nation, American Colony, Pedro A. Malavet
Pedro A. Malavet
A study of Puerto Rico's century-old legal relationship with the United States, and how it constructs Puerto Ricans as legal and social second-class citizens because of their cultural nationhood. The discriminatory treatment conflicts with contemporary notions of justice and morality in postmodern political and legal philosophy. The article articulates a framework for legal reform that is consistent with a new progressive theoretical construct of a pluralistic and communitarian form of liberalism. I further developed the material that I discuss in this article in my book: America's Colony: The Political and Cultural Conflict Between the United States and Puerto Rico (NYU …
[The Accidental Crit I:] Literature And Arts As Antisubordination Praxis Latcrit Theory And Cultural Production: The Confessions Of An Accidental Crit, Pedro A. Malavet
[The Accidental Crit I:] Literature And Arts As Antisubordination Praxis Latcrit Theory And Cultural Production: The Confessions Of An Accidental Crit, Pedro A. Malavet
Pedro A. Malavet
This short article: (1) explains the development the Arts Panel at the LatCrit IV Conference and provides an account of its substantive content; (2) it gives the author's reactions to the presentations, while placing them within the planned description and written questions, locating them within the contemporary debate over the use of narrative in legal scholarship and in postmodern philosophical discourse more generally; and (3) the author gives a narrative about his own reluctant, difficult, and ultimately accidental gravitation towards LatCrit theory.