1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450459103321

Autore

Aldama Frederick Luis <1969->

Titolo

Dancing with ghosts [[electronic resource] ] : a critical biography of Arturo Islas / / Frederick Luis Aldama

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005

ISBN

9786612358050

1-282-35805-7

1-59734-569-5

0-520-93854-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Disciplina

818/.5409

B

Soggetti

Authors, American - 20th century

English teachers - United States

Mexican Americans - Intellectual life

Mexican American authors

Mexican Americans in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "Sonny" -- 2. Bio-Graphé -- 3. Sexuality -- 4. Death and Rebirth -- 5. Being Chicano -- Coda "A Dancing with Ghosts" -- Chronology of Major Events -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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sexuality in San Francisco in the 1970's, and his fatal struggle with AIDS in the late 1980's. Drawing from hundreds of unpublished letters, lecture notes, drafts of essays, novels, and poetry archived at Stanford University, Aldama also deals frankly with the controversies that swirled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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910696712103321

Autore

Bartberger Charles E

Titolo

Potential for a basin-centered gas accumulation in Travis Peak (Hosston) Formation, Gulf Coast Basin, U.S.A [[electronic resource] /] / by Charles E. Bartberger, Thaddeus S. Dyman and Steven M. Condon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Reston, Va.] : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , [2003]

Edizione

[Version 1.0.]

Descrizione fisica

iv, 36 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

U.S. Geological Survey bulletin ; ; 2184-E

Geologic studies of basin-centered gas systems

Altri autori (Persone)

DymanT. S

CondonSteven M

Soggetti

Natural gas - Geology - Gulf Coast (U.S.)

Natural gas - Geology - Texas

Travis Peak Formation (Tex.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on July 16, 2008).

"Posted online April 2003."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 34-36).



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910800055203321

Autore

Miller-Day Michelle A

Titolo

Communication among grandmothers, mothers, and adult daughters [[electronic resource] ] : a qualitative study of maternal relationships / / Michelle A. Miller-Day

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004

ISBN

1-135-64332-6

1-282-32266-4

9786612322662

1-4106-1212-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

LEA's series on personal relationships

Disciplina

306.874

Soggetti

Parent and adult child

Mothers and daughters

Intergenerational relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-246) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; I: Setting the Scene; II: The Action; III: The Denouement; Epilogue; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines communication processes within the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship, emphasizing an intergenerational perspective. Using observations of and extensive interviews with six sets of middle-income, Caucasian female family members, this book offers a heuristic account of intergenerational mother-daughter relational communication.Author Michelle Miller-Day integrates and juxtaposes alternative experiences of social interaction, situating readers in the world of grandmothers, mothers, adult daughters, and granddaughters as they experience, describe, and analyze th