Dancing with ghosts : a critical biography of Arturo Islas / Frederick Luis Aldama.

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Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 188 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520938540
0520938542
9786612358050
661235805X
1282358057
9781282358058
1597345695
9781597345699
9780520231887
0520231880
9780520243927
0520243927
1417562676
9781417562671

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dancing with ghostsDDC classification:

818/.5409 B 22

LOC classification:

PS3559.S44

Other classification:

K837. 126

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Bringing the Dead to Life; 1. "Sonny"; 2. Bio-Graphé; 3. Sexuality; 4. Death and Rebirth; 5. Being Chicano; Coda: "A Dancing with Ghosts"; Chronology of Major Events; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Illustrations

Summary: This first critical biography of Arturo Islas (1938-1991) brings to life the complex and overlapping worlds inhabited by the gay Chicano poet, novelist, scholar, and professor. Gracefully written and deeply researched, Dancing with Ghosts considers both the larger questions of Islas's life-his sexuality, racial identification, and political personality-and the events of his everyday existence, from his childhood in the borderlands of El Paso to his adulthood in San Francisco and at Stanford University. Frederick Aldama portrays the many facets of Islas's engaging and often contradictory.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-177) and index.

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This first critical biography of Arturo Islas (1938-1991) brings to life the complex and overlapping worlds inhabited by the gay Chicano poet, novelist, scholar, and professor. Gracefully written and deeply researched, Dancing with Ghosts considers both the larger questions of Islas's life-his sexuality, racial identification, and political personality-and the events of his everyday existence, from his childhood in the borderlands of El Paso to his adulthood in San Francisco and at Stanford University. Frederick Aldama portrays the many facets of Islas's engaging and often contradictory.

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