Butterfly boy : memories of a Chicano mariposa / Rigoberto González.
Material type: TextSeries: Writing in LatinidadPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (xii, 207 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780299219031
- 0299219038
- González, Rigoberto
- González, Rigoberto
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Hispanic American gays -- Biography
- Gay men -- Biography
- Gay men -- Biography
- Écrivains américains -- 20e siècle -- Biographies
- Homosexuels américains d'origine latino-américaine -- Biographies
- Homosexuels masculins -- Biographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- Authors, American
- Gay men
- Hispanic American gays
- 1900-1999
- 813/.54 22
- PS3557.O4695 Z46 2006eb
- PS3557.O4795 ‡b Z46 2006
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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.
"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, González also faces the pressure of coming-of-age as a gay man in a culture that prizes machismo. Losing his mother when he is twelve, González must then confront his father's abandonment and an abiding sense of cultural estrangement. His only sense of connection gets forged in a violent relationship with an older man. By finding his calling as a writer, and by revisiting the relationship with his father during a trip to Mexico, González finally claims his identity at the intersection of race, class, and sexuality. The result is a leap of faith that every reader who ever felt like an outsider will immediately recognize"--From publisher description.
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