TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aldama,Frederick Luis
TI  - Dancing with ghosts: a critical biography of Arturo Islas 
SN  - 9780520938540
AV  - PS3559.S44 
U1  - 818/.5409B 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Islas, Arturo,
KW  - Stanford University
KW  - Faculty
KW  - Biography
KW  - cct
KW  - fast
KW  - Authors, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - English teachers
KW  - United States
KW  - Mexican Americans
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Mexican American authors
KW  - Mexican Americans in literature
KW  - Écrivains américains
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Professeurs d'anglais
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Américains d'origine mexicaine
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - Écrivains américains d'origine mexicaine
KW  - Américains d'origine mexicaine dans la littérature
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - Litteratur
KW  - Engelsk, amerikansk litteratur
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-177) and index; 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
N2  - 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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