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Arturo Islas
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Author : Arturo Islas
language : en
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Release Date : 2003-04-30
Arturo Islas written by Arturo Islas and has been published by Arte Publico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-30 with Fiction categories.
Prolific poet, essayist, and short story writer, Arturo Islas (1938-1991) is well known for his two insightful novels, The Rain God and Migrant Souls. His untimely death to AIDS truncated a productive and influential career that has left a yawning gap in Latino letters. Islas was a dedicated, thoughtful, and style-conscious writer, who promoted a sense of responsibility to community and art for both writers and critics. The quality of his commitment was matched by the example he set in delving into the esthetics and psychology of gay creativity, an exploration that took him to uncompromising confrontations with his own traditional upbringing. Islas has made his mark as a writer of the U.S.-Mexico border and a leader at the forefront of exploring more social, psychological and philosophical boundaries. As a Chicano from El Paso, as a gay Latino writer, Islas surmounted many boundaries, borders and established roles; in this, he is a standard-bearer for all of Latino literature. A seasoned scholar and professor in the English Department at Stanford University for most of his professional life, Islas maintained an extensive collection of works, records, and papers. The present volume is the product of another Stanford graduate, Frederick Luis Aldama, who combed through the Islas archive and recovered the short fiction, poetry, and essays on Chicano letters that Islas did not have the opportunity to publish. Aldama has organized these materials and edited them so that they may be accessible and ñbroaden the vision of Arturo Islas as writer and thinker.î
Representation Of Friendship In The Rain God By Arturo Islas
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Author : Kerstin Köck
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2015-09-18
Representation Of Friendship In The Rain God By Arturo Islas written by Kerstin Köck and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Stuttgart (English Department of Literary Studies), course: Proseminar, language: English, abstract: The following essay will examine the contrast between friendship and the construct of family in Arturo Islas’ novel "The Rain God". In the story the reader is confronted with the comradeship between the characters Juanita and Lola. Their friendship endures a really difficult situation, Lola's adulterous affair. Additionally, there is this construct of family which is highly dysfunctional and held together by only a few members. The course of the narrative shows that friendship becomes of higher value than family relations. The short essay explores this by analyzing the characters and how they are represented in relation to one another.
Dancing With Ghosts
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Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2005
Dancing With Ghosts written by Frederick Luis Aldama and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A critical biography of novelist, poet, and former Stanford professor Arturo Islas (1938-1991).
Dancing With Ghosts
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Author : Frederick Aldama
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004-12-04
Dancing With Ghosts written by Frederick Aldama and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-04 with Social Science categories.
This first critical biography of Arturo Islas (19381991) 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 personality. He also explores Islas's coming into the craft of poetry and fiction—his extraordinary struggle to publish his novels, The Rain God, La Mollie and the King of Tears, and Migrant Souls—as well as his pivotal role in paving the way for a new generation of Chicano/a scholars and writers. Through a skillful interweaving of life history, criticism, and literary theory, Aldama paints an unusually rich and wide-ranging portrait of both the man and the eventful times in which he lived. He describes Islas's struggle with polio as a child, his near-death experience and ileostomy as a thirty-year-old beginning to explore his queer sexuality in San Francisco in the 1970s, and his fatal struggle with AIDS in the late 1980s. Drawing from hundreds of unpublished letters, lecture notes, drafts of essays, novels, and poetry archived at Stanford University, Aldama also deals frankly with the controversies that swirled around Islas's impassioned love life, his drug addictions, and his scholarly and professional career as one of the first Chicano/a professors in the United States. He discusses the importance of Islas's pioneering role in bridging Anglo, Latin American, Chicano/a, and European storytelling styles and voices. Dancing with Ghosts succeeds brilliantly both as an account of a fascinating life that embraced many different worlds and as a chronicle of the grand historical shifts that transformed the late-twentieth-century American cultural landscape.
The Rain God
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Author : Arturo Islas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Rain God written by Arturo Islas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Fiction categories.
A fictional portrait of three generations of a Mexican-American family reveals their struggles to come to terms with each other and the ever-changing, sometimes harsh, world around them, while still embracing their Hispanic heritage.
The Rain God
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Author : Arturo Islas
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2021-01-19
The Rain God written by Arturo Islas and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with Fiction categories.
"The Rain God is a lost masterpiece that helped launch a legion of writers. Its return, in times like these, is a plot twist that perhaps only Arturo Islas himself could have conjured. May it win many new readers." — Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels and The Hummingbird’s Daughter "Rivers, rivulets, fountains and waters flow, but never return to their joyful beginnings; anxiously they hasten on to the vast realms of the Rain God." A beloved Southwestern classic—as beautiful, subtle and profound as the desert itself—Arturo Islas's The Rain God is a breathtaking masterwork of contemporary literature. Set in a fictional small town on the Texas-Mexico border, it tells the funny, sad and quietly outrageous saga of the children and grandchildren of Mama Chona the indomitable matriarch of the Angel clan who fled the bullets and blood of the 1911 revolution for a gringo land of promise. In bold creative strokes, Islas paints on unforgettable family portrait of souls haunted by ghosts and madness--sinners torn by loves, lusts and dangerous desires. From gentle hearts plagued by violence and epic delusions to a child who con foretell the coming of rain in the sweet scent of angels, here is a rich and poignant tale of outcasts struggling to live and die with dignity . . . and to hold onto their past while embracing an unsteady future.
La Mollie And The King Of Tears
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Author : Arturo Islas
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 1996
La Mollie And The King Of Tears written by Arturo Islas and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Fiction categories.
A posthumous novel by the pioneering Chicano fiction writer--a tragi-comic tale revealing a new side to Arturo Islas's talent.
Critical Mappings Of Arturo Islas S Fictions
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Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
language : en
Publisher: Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
Release Date : 2008
Critical Mappings Of Arturo Islas S Fictions written by Frederick Luis Aldama and has been published by Bilingual Review Press (AZ) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
The 17 essays and interviews collected in this book aim to enliven and enrich our understanding of one of our most important authors of contemporary Chicano/a letters. The late Arturo Islas wrote three novels including The Rain God and Migrant Souls, as well as many short stories. For much of his career, his work was rejected by the worlds of both mainstream and Chicano literature because of its experimental style and themes that focus on Chicanos learning to negotiate borders between nations, races, genders -- even sexualities. This combination of early and recent essays explores his work, addressing issues of technique, publishing in a prejudiced marketplace, and borderland racial and sexual identity. The essays map Islas's oeuvre to clear a space for the expression of a complex Chicano identity within a contemporary American canon. Several scholars have contributed, including Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, Josi David Saldmvar, Rosaura Sanchez, and Renato Rosaldo.
The Rain God
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Author : Arturo Islas
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Release Date : 2020-08-04
The Rain God written by Arturo Islas and has been published by William Morrow Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-04 with categories.
"The Rain God is a lost masterpiece that helped launch a legion of writers. Its return, in times like these, is a plot twist that perhaps only Arturo Islas himself could have conjured. May it win many new readers." -- Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels and The Hummingbird's Daughter "Rivers, rivulets, fountains and waters flow, but never return to their joyful beginnings; anxiously they hasten on to the vast realms of the Rain God." A beloved Southwestern classic--as beautiful, subtle and profound as the desert itself--Arturo Islas's The Rain God is a breathtaking masterwork of contemporary literature. Set in a fictional small town on the Texas-Mexico border, it tells the funny, sad and quietly outrageous saga of the children and grandchildren of Mama Chona the indomitable matriarch of the Angel clan who fled the bullets and blood of the 1911 revolution for a gringo land of promise. In bold creative strokes, Islas paints on unforgettable family portrait of souls haunted by ghosts and madness--sinners torn by loves, lusts and dangerous desires. From gentle hearts plagued by violence and epic delusions to a child who con foretell the coming of rain in the sweet scent of angels, here is a rich and poignant tale of outcasts struggling to live and die with dignity . . . and to hold onto their past while embracing an unsteady future.
Conversations With Maxine Hong Kingston
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Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1998
Conversations With Maxine Hong Kingston written by Maxine Hong Kingston and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In a fascinating collection of interviews, renowned author Maxine Hong Kingston talks about her life, her writing, and the role of Asian-Americans in our history. As her books always hover along the hazy line between fiction and memoir, she clarifies the differences and exults in the difficulties of distinguishing between the remembered and the re-created.