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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Tác giả chính: González, Rigoberto (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2006]
Loạt:Writing in Latinidad.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=202632
Mục lục:
  • 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.