Butterfly boy : memories of a Chicano mariposa /
"Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, this is a unique coming-out and coming-of-age story of a first-generation Chicano who trades one life for another, only to discover that history and memory are not exchangeable or forgettable. Growing up among poor migrant Mexican farmworkers, Gon...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison :
University of Wisconsin Press,
[2006]
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Colección: | Writing in Latinidad.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Smarting points, starting points
- Summer's passage, Southern California, 1990
- Welcome to Indio, California, Pop. 36,793
- Ghost whisper to my lover
- Now leaving Mexicali, Baja California, Norte
- Ghost whisper to my lover
- pt. 2. Childhood and other language lessons
- Bakersfield, California, 1970-72
- Zacapu, México, 1972-79
- Thermal, California, 1979-80
- Thermal, 1981-82 (Our little home on top of the garage)
- Summer's passage
- pt. 3. Adolescent mariposa
- Ghost whisper to my lover
- Indio, 1983-88 ("El Campo" years)
- pt. 4. Zacapu days and nights of the dead
- Summer's passage
- Ghost whisper to my lover
- Zacapu, July 1990 (Imago)
- pt. 5. Unpinned
- Riverside, California
- Ghost whisper to my lover.