Format:
Book
Title:
Ambientes : new queer Latino writing / edited by Lazaro Lima and Felice Picano.
Call Number:
FIC AMBIENTE
Publisher, Date:
Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2011.
Description:
xiv, 206 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"As the U.S. 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. Edited by Lázaro Lima and Felice Picano, Ambientes is a revolutionary collection of fiction featuring stories by established authors as well as emerging voices that present a collective portrait of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experience in America today. 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 midwestern perspectives on Latina and Latino queers from different walks of life. Stories range from sensual pieces to comical romances and from inner-city dramas fueled by street language to portraits of gay domesticity, making this a much-needed collection for many different kinds of readers. The stories in this collection reflect a vibrant and creative community and redefine received notions of 'gay' and 'lesbian.'" --Amazon
Subjects:
Hispanic American gays men -- Fiction.
American fiction -- Hispanic American authors.
Homosexuality in literature.
Gay people's writings, American
Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people.
Genre:
LGBTQ+ short stories.
Other Author:
Lima, Lázaro.
Picano, Felice, 1944-
Contents:
Kimberle / Achy Obejas -- Pandora's box / Arturo Arias -- Shorty / Daisy Hernández -- Puti and the gay bandits of Hunts Point / Charles Rice-González -- Porcupine love / Tatiana De La Tierra -- The unequivocal moon / Elías Miguel Muñoz -- Dear Rodney / Emanuel Xavier -- This desire for queer survival / Horacio N. Roque Ramírez -- La fiesta de Los Linares / Janet Arelis Quezada -- Malverde / Myriam Gurba -- Aqui viene Johnny / Raquel Gutiérrez -- Haunting José / Rigoberto González -- Imitation of Selena / Ramón García -- Magnetic Island Sueño Crónica / Susana Chávez-Silverman -- I leave tomorrow, I come back yesterday / Uriel Quesada -- Six days in St. Paul / Steven Cordova -- Arturo, who likes to shave his legs in the snow / Lucy Marrero.
ISBN:
9780299282240 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0299282244 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780299282233 (e-book)
0299282236 (e-book)