The Revolt Of The Cockroach People
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The Revolt Of The Cockroach People
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Author : Oscar Zeta Acosta
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2013-02-06
The Revolt Of The Cockroach People written by Oscar Zeta Acosta and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-06 with Fiction categories.
The further adventures of “Dr. Gonzo” as he defends the “cucarachas”— the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo" a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge. In this exhilarating sequel to The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Acosta takes us behind the front lines of the militant Chicano movement of the late sixties and early seventies, a movement he served both in the courtroom and on the barricades. Here are the brazen games of "chicken" Acosta played against the Anglo legal establishment; battles fought with bombs as well as writs; and a reluctant hero who faces danger not only from the police but from the vatos locos he champions. What emerges is at once an important political document of a genuine popular uprising and a revealing, hilarious, and moving personal saga.
The Revolt Of The Cockroach People
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Author : Oscar Zeta Acosta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
The Revolt Of The Cockroach People written by Oscar Zeta Acosta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Autobiography Of A Brown Buffalo
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Author : Oscar Zeta Acosta
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2013-02-06
Autobiography Of A Brown Buffalo written by Oscar Zeta Acosta and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-06 with Fiction categories.
Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge. Written with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this book is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in the psychedelic sixties, of taking on impossible cases while breaking all tile rules of courtroom conduct, and of scrambling headlong in search of a personal and cultural identity. It is a landmark of contemporary Hispanic-American literature, at once ribald, surreal, and unmistakably authentic.
Gonzo Cockroach
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Author : Paul K. Feith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Gonzo Cockroach written by Paul K. Feith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
Strange Affinities
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Author : Grace Kyungwon Hong
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-24
Strange Affinities written by Grace Kyungwon Hong and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-24 with History categories.
Collection of essays that use queer studies and feminism as a lens for examining the relationships between racialized communities.
Oscar Zeta Acosta The Uncollected Works
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Author : Oscar "Zeta "Acosta
language : en
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Oscar Zeta Acosta The Uncollected Works written by Oscar "Zeta "Acosta 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 1996-01-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Oscar ñZetaî Acosta: The Uncollected Works gathers unpublished stories, essays, letters, poems and a teleplay written by Acosta (1935-1974), the legendary Chicano attorney, political activist and writer. All of these works were written between the early 1960s and shortly before his mysterious disappearance in Mazatalàn, Mexico, in 1974. Through these writings Acosta reveals a variety of personae: a leader troubled by issues of ethnic, linguistic, and cultural identity; a man who saw himself as a Robin Hood of Mexican Americans; an unstable yet genial wanderer who joined Hunter S. Thompson in a search for the American Dream. Acosta realized that democracy is about speaking out, about feeling uncomfortable, about defining others and oneself through the prism of race and history. With the publication of Oscar ñZetaî Acosta: The Uncollected Works, the complete picture of a crucial player in the Chicano Movementdescribed by others as ñour Thomas Aquinasî and by himself as ñthe Brown Buffaloîfinally emerges.
Death Beyond Disavowal
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Author : Grace Kyungwon Hong
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2015-10-01
Death Beyond Disavowal written by Grace Kyungwon Hong and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-01 with Social Science categories.
Death beyond Disavowal utilizes “difference” as theorized by women of color feminists to analyze works of cultural production by people of color as expressing a powerful antidote to the erasures of contemporary neoliberalism. According to Grace Kyungwon Hong, neoliberalism is first and foremost a structure of disavowal enacted as a reaction to the successes of the movements for decolonization, desegregation, and liberation of the post–World War II era. It emphasizes the selective and uneven affirmation and incorporation of subjects and ideas that were formerly categorically marginalized, particularly through invitation into reproductive respectability. It does so in order to suggest that racial, gendered, and sexualized violence and inequity are conditions of the past, rather than the foundations of contemporary neoliberalism’s exacerbation of premature death. Neoliberal ideologies hold out the promise of protection from premature death in exchange for complicity with this pretense. In Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider, Cherríe Moraga’s The Last Generation and Waiting in the Wings, Oscar Zeta Acosta’s The Revolt of the Cockroach People, Ana Castillo’s So Far from God, Gayl Jones’s Corregidora, Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston, Inge Blackman’s B. D. Women, Rodney Evans’s Brother to Brother, and the work of the late Barbara Christian, Death beyond Disavowal finds the memories of death and precarity that neoliberal ideologies attempt to erase. Hong posits cultural production as a compelling rejoinder to neoliberalism’s violences. She situates women of color feminism, often dismissed as narrow or limited in its effect, as a potent diagnosis of and alternative to such violences. And she argues for the importance of women of color feminism to any critical engagement with contemporary neoliberalism.
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.
The Cockroach Dance
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Author : Meja Mwangi
language : en
Publisher: HM Books Intl.
Release Date : 2013-08-02
The Cockroach Dance written by Meja Mwangi and has been published by HM Books Intl. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-02 with Fiction categories.
Dusman Gonzaga lives in an old apartment building overrun by cockroaches and squalor. The building, Dacca House, is owned by Tumbo Kubwa, a mindless slum lord, and occupied by a strange mix of characters; from garbage collectors to hawkers, from con men to witch doctors from genii to mad men. In this crazy world of wild adventures and appalling poverty, Dusman tries to organize the tenants to boycott paying rent in a desperate move to force the landlord to listen to their woes.
Mestizaje
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Author : Rafael Pérez-Torres
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2006
Mestizaje written by Rafael Pérez-Torres and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social Science categories.
Focusing on the often unrecognized role race plays in expressions of Chicano culture, Mestizaje is a provocative exploration of the volatility and mutability of racial identities. In this important moment in Chicano studies, Rafael Pérez-Torres reveals how the concepts and realities of race, historical memory, the body, and community have both constrained and opened possibilities for forging new and potentially liberating multiracial identities. Informed by a broad-ranging theoretical investigation of identity politics and race and incorporating feminist and queer critiques, Pérez-Torres skillfully analyzes Chicano cultural production. Contextualizing the history of mestizaje, he shows how the concept of mixed race has been used to engage issues of hybridity and voice and examines the dynamics that make mestizo and mestiza identities resistant to, as well as affirmative of, dominant forms of power. He also addresses the role that mestizaje has played in expressive culture, including the hip-hop music of Cypress Hill and the vibrancy of Chicano poster art. Turning to issues of mestizaje in literary creation, Pérez-Torres offers critical readings of the works of Emma Pérez, Gil Cuadros, and Sandra Cisneros, among others. This book concludes with a consideration of the role that the mestizo body plays as a site of elusive or displaced knowledge. Moving beyond the oppositions—nationalism versus assimilation, men versus women, Texans versus Californians—that have characterized much of Chicano studies, Mestizaje synthesizes and assesses twenty-five years of pathbreaking thinking to make a case for the core components, sensibilities, and concerns of the discipline. Rafael Pérez-Torres is professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins, coauthor of To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back: Memories of an East LA Outlaw, and coeditor of The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztlán, 1970–2000.