Beschreibung
Details
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.09.2005
Verlag
University Of Arizona PressSeitenzahl
166
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,4/1,1 cm
Gewicht
259 g
Auflage
05003 Auflage 3rd edition
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8165-2460-0
There's no denying it, media culture has ushered in a new era of visibility for gays in America. Yet somehow the gay Latino doesn't fit into this sound-bite identity and usually isn't included in national media images. Rane Arroyo offers a corrective. Known primarily as a poet and playwright representing the gay Latino community, Arroyo has also been publishing prose throughout his career and now gathers into this book a storm of writing that has been gaining strength, drop by drop, for more than ten years. How to Name a Hurricane collects short stories and other fictions depicting Latino drag queens and leather men, religious sinners and happy atheists, working-class heroes and cyberspace vaqueros--a parade of characters that invites readers to consider whether one is more authentic a gay Latino than another. Whereas actual hurricanes are given names, the gays given voice in this collection must name themselves--and these narratives in turn reveal something of the "I" of Hurricane Rane. Whether portraying a family gathering as Brides-head Revisited with a mambo soundtrack, recounting the relationship of transvestite Louie/Lois and her bisexual Superman, or bemoaning "feeling as unsexy as an old bean burrito in a 7-11 microwave," Arroyo tracks the heart beat of his characters through a shimmering palette of styles. Here are monologues, a story in verse, and other experimental forms appropriate to experimental lives-all affirming the basic human rights of dignity, equality, love, and even silliness. When the AIDS epidemic first hit, many Latino families destroyed any remembrances of their gay and bisexual sons that might betray their pasts to la familia or el pueblo. Arroyo's writingsreturn the ghosts of those sons to the families, bars, dance clubs, and neighborhoods where they belong. By penetrating to the I's of narrative hurricanes, these stories honor the survivors of our ongoing cultural storms.
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