Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (739 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0299282244 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
“With this collection, queer Latina/o writers claim their place in the variegated terrain of contemporary American fiction. Ranging from the erotic to the elegiac, the fantastic to the frighteningly real, these stories entertain our senses and challenge our notions of what it means to be a queer person of color.”—Israel Reyes, Dartmouth College
Good collection E. SANDOVAL This was a good collection of stories by a wide variety of writers. Of the pieces that stick out n my mind (don't have the book in front of me)Horacio N. Roque Ramírez's bio essay is devestatingly beautiful and heartfelt. Charles Rice-González's tale of young tranny bandits is actually revealing and ultimately sad. Ramón García spins a comic tragedy of a Selena-obsessed drag queen. Achy Obejas has a quietly haunting piece in the beginning of the book. Raquel Gutiérrez has a sweet defiant piece about a butch girl.
Latino population grows rapidly, and as the LGBTQ Latino community becomes more visible and a more crucial part of our literary and artistic heritage, there is an increasing demand for literature that successfully highlights these diverse lives. As the U.S. With a preface by Picano and an introduction by Lima that sets the stage for understanding Latino literary and cultural history, this is the first anthology to cross cultural and regional borders by offering a wide variety of urban, rural, East Coast, West Coast, and mi