Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (Writing in Latinidad: Autobiographical Voices of U. Latinos/as) - Hardcover

Gonzalez, Rigoberto

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299219003 ISBN 13: 9780299219000

Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006

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Book by Gonzalez Rigoberto

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"Rigoberto Gonzalez is a writer who walks, with an elegant gait, the line between sorrow and laughter, anger and acceptance. His prose is shaped by the poetry of irony. And he is a master of it." - Richard Rodriguez, author of Brown: The Last Discovery of America "A deeply felt work that belongs in the company of classic American memoirs such as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, When I Was Puerto Rican, and Hunger of Memory.... Engrossing, supremely enjoyable, and beautifully written." - Jaime Manrique, author of Eminent Maricones"

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Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, "Butterfly Boy" 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, Rigoberto Gonzalez 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, Gonzalez must then confront his father's abandonment and an abiding sense of cultural estrangement, both from his adopted home in the United States and from a Mexican birthright. 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, Gonzalez 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.

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• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0299219003
• ISBN 13: 9780299219000
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224