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Butterfly boy : memories of a Chicano mariposa / Rigoberto González. by González, Rigoberto. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Series:  Writing in Latinidad Description:  xii, 207 p. ; 24 cm. Contents:  Part One: Smarting Points, Starting Points -- Summer's Passage, Southern California 1990 -- Welcome to Indio, Pop. 36,793 -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover -- Now Leaving Mexicali, Baja California, Norte -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover -- Part Two: Childhood and Other Language Lessons -- Bakersfield 1970-72 -- Zacapu 1972-79 -- Thermal 1979-80 -- Thermal 1981-82 (Our Little Home On Top of the Garage) -- Summer's Passage -- Part Three: Adolescent Mariposa -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover -- Indio 1983-88 ("El Campo" Years) -- Part Four: Zacapu Days and Nights of the Dead -- Summer's Passage -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover -- July 1990 (Imago) -- Part Five: Unpinned -- Riverside -- Ghost-Whisper to My Lover Summary:  Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, this is a unique coming-out and coming-of-age story of a first-generation Chicano who trades one life for another, only to discover that history and memory are not exchangeable or forgettable. Growing up among poor migrant Mexican farmworkers, González also faces the pressure of coming-of-age as a gay man in a culture that prizes machismo. Losing his mother when he is twelve, González must then confront his father's abandonment and an abiding sense of cultural estrangement. His only sense of connection gets forged in a violent relationship with an older man. By finding his calling as a writer, and by revisiting the relationship with his father during a trip to Mexico, González finally claims his identity at the intersection of race, class, and sexuality. The result is a leap of faith that every reader who ever felt like an outsider will immediately recognize.--From publisher description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Calmar Campus Library Circulation Stacks (Calmar) 813 Gon 2006 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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