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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: González, Rigoberto (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2006]
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.