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"Myriam Gurba's debut is the bold and hilarious tale of her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Mean turns what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, funny, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously. We act mean to defend ourselves from boredom and from those who would cut off our breasts. We act mean to defend our clubs and institutions. We act mean because we like to laugh. Being mean to boys is fun and a second-wave feminist duty. Being mean to men who deserve it is a holy mission. Sisterhood is powerful, but being mean is more exhilarating. Being mean isn't for everybody. Being mean is best practiced by those who understand it as an art form. These virtuosos live closer to the divine than the rest of humanity. They're queers. Myriam Gurba is a queer spoken-word performer, visual artist, and writer from Santa Maria, California. She's the author of Dahlia Season (2007, Manic D) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, Wish You Were Me (2011, Future Tense Books), and Painting Their Portraits in Winter (2015, Manic D). She has toured with Sister Spit and her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach. She lives in Long Beach, where she teaches social studies to eighth-graders"--Provided by publisher.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- Mexican American lesbians --- Mexican American lesbians. --- Mexican American women authors --- Mexican American women authors. --- Literary. --- Personal Memoirs. --- Women. --- Gurba, Myriam. --- 2000-2099.
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Authors, American --- Lesbians in literature --- Lesbians --- Mexican American authors --- Mexican American lesbians --- Mexican Americans in literature --- Women and literature --- History --- Anzaldúa, Gloria
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Authors, American --- Lesbians in literature --- Mexican American lesbians --- Mexican Americans in literature --- Mexican American women authors --- Women authors, Mexican American --- Women authors, American --- Chicana lesbians --- Lesbians, Mexican American --- Lesbians --- American authors --- Social ethics --- Anzaldúa, Gloria --- Feminism --- Theory --- Book --- Courses
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Lesbians in literature. --- Mexican American lesbians --- Mexican American women in literature. --- Mexican American women --- Mexican Americans in literature. --- Women and literature --- Intellectual life. --- Intellectual life. --- History --- Anzaldúa, Gloria --- Criticism and interpretation.
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This desert mystery novel, set in Palm Springs in 1983, is from one of Chicana literature's finest writers.
Mexican Americans --- AIDS (Disease) --- Mexican American lesbians --- Patients --- Coachella Valley (Calif.) --- Chicana lesbians --- Lesbians, Mexican American --- Lesbians --- Fiction. --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- FICTION --- General. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Philosophy
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With the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa ushered in an era of Chicana lesbian writing. But while these two writers have achieved iconic status, observers of the Chicana/o experience have been slow to perceive the existence of a whole community-lesbian and straight, male as well as female-who write about the Chicana lesbian experience. To create a first full map of that community, this book explores a wide range of plays, novels, and short stories by Chicana/o authors that depict lesbian characters or lesbian desire. Catriona Rueda Esquibel starts from the premise that Chicana/o communities, theories, and feminisms cannot be fully understood without taking account of the perspectives and experiences of Chicana lesbians. To open up these perspectives, she engages in close readings of works centered around the following themes: La Llorona, the Aztec Princess, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, girlhood friendships, rural communities and history, and Chicana activism. Her investigation broadens the community of Chicana lesbian writers well beyond Moraga and Anzaldúa, while it also demonstrates that the histories of Chicana lesbians have had to be written in works of fiction because these women have been marginalized and excluded in canonical writings on Chicano life and experience.
Lesbians' writings, American --- American literature --- Mexican American lesbians --- Mexican American women --- Women and literature --- Mexican American women in literature. --- Mexican Americans in literature. --- Lesbians in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Mexican American authors --- Women authors --- Intellectual life. --- Literature --- Chicana lesbians --- Lesbians, Mexican American --- Lesbians --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers)
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