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In the Mexican Catholic tradition, retablos are ornamental structures made of carved wood framing an oil painting of a devotional image, usually a patron saint. The author commemorates the passion and the pain of these carvings in this book, a moving memoir of human experience and thought. The write...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: González, Rigoberto
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
González, Rigoberto.
Gay authors.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Écrivains homosexuels > Biographies.
Gay authors > Biography.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : When Butterflies Are Red : Mariposa Literary Activism / Maythee Rojas
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction : About Retablos, About Mariposa Memory
  • The Truman Capote Aria
  • Confessions of a Gay Catholic Boy
  • Orphans in the Terrorist World
  • Easter Rock : 1983
  • Memory Lessons, Memory Lesions
  • Andres Montoya : The Ice Worker Still Sings
  • The Poet Ai : An Appreciation
  • Beloved Jotoranos
  • Lullaby from Thomas James
  • Roxana's Melody
  • To the Writer, to the Activist, to the Citizen - The Gay Brown Beret Suite
  • Toward a Mariposa Consciousness.

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