02405nam 2200493 a 450 991081579470332120200520144314.01-282-27025-797866122702530-299-21903-8(OCoLC)298789229(OCoLC)607739984(CKB)1000000000477226(MiAaPQ)EBC3444707(EXLCZ)99100000000047722620060227d2006 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrButterfly boy memories of a Chicano mariposa /Rigoberto Gonzalez1st ed.Madison University of Wisconsin Pressc20061 online resource (223 p.)Writing in LatinidadBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-299-21900-3 Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Smarting Points, Starting Points -- Summer's Passage, Southern California, 1990 -- Welcome to Indio, California, Pop. 36,793 -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover -- Now Leaving Mexicali, Baja California, Norte -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover -- Part 2: Childhood and Other Language Lessons -- Bakersfield, California, 1970-72 -- Zacapu, México, 1972-79 -- Thermal, California, 1979-80 -- Thermal, 1981-82 (Our Little House on Top of the Garage) -- Summer's Passage -- Part 3: Adolescent Mariposa -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover -- Indio, 1983-88 ("El Campo" Years) -- Part 4: Zacapu Days and Nights of the Dead -- Summer's Passage -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover -- Zacapu, July 1990 (Imago) -- Part 5: Unpinned -- Riverside, California -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover.Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, Butterfly Boy 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.Writing in Latinidad.Authors, American20th centuryBiographyHispanic American gaysBiographyAuthors, AmericanHispanic American gays813/.54Gonzalez Rigoberto0MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815794703321Butterfly boy4049706UNINA