03089nam 2200529z- 450 99105971424033212022101397816857106511685710654(CKB)5590000000962882(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/92637(oapen)doab92637(EXLCZ)99559000000096288220202210d2022 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSomething More Splendid Than TwoBrooklyn, NYpunctum books20221 online resource (114 p.)9781685710644 1685710646 Prelude -- 1. Joaquin as my father -- 2. Joaquin as myself -- 3. Joaquin as John Rollin Ridge -- Epilogue: reading with my studentsBlending literary analysis and memoir, Something More Splendid Than Two is at once an excavation of intergenerational wounds, a dance number, a poem, and a fraught love letter from son to father that disrupts the dominant narratives surrounding the life and myth of Joaquín Murrieta. In the Mexican American imaginary, the legend of Joaquín Murrieta has been recast to explain the wounding of Mexican American men after the 1848 border formation. In these versions, Joaquín is a vigilante hero and the patriarchal father of the Chicanx movement. Revisiting the most circulated version of the Joaquín myth, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta written by Cherokee writer John Rollin Ridge, the first published Native American author in the US, Something More Splendid Than Two offers an alternative to these versions. Stitching together multiple tangled histories of Indigenous and Mexican woundings living in the margins of Ridge's 19th-century novel, alfaro opens a queer timeline where Chicanx and Indigenous solidarities can be imagined. By attuning to the choreographies of power and patriarchy that produced readers and writers like Ridge and the author of this book, josé rivers alfaro imagines that in that endless encounter between reader and writer, both time travel and collective healing are possible.Ethnic studiesbicsscIndigenous peoplesbicsscLGBTQ+ Studies / topicsbicsscMemoirsbicsscRelating to Indigenous peoplesbicsscUnited StatesfastBiographies.fastFiction.fastNovels.lcgft19th-century America;borderlands;California;Chicanx Studies;Indigenous Studies;Joaquin Murrieta;Latinx Studies;Queer StudiesEthnic studiesIndigenous peoplesLGBTQ+ Studies / topicsMemoirsRelating to Indigenous peoples818/.609Alfaro José Rivers1822065BOOK9910597142403321Something more splendid than two4388121UNINA