LEADER 03089nam 2200529z- 450 001 9910597142403321 005 20221013 010 $a9781685710651 010 $a1685710654 035 $a(CKB)5590000000962882 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/92637 035 $a(oapen)doab92637 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000962882 100 $a20202210d2022 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aSomething More Splendid Than Two 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2022 215 $a1 online resource (114 p.) 311 08$a9781685710644 311 08$a1685710646 327 $aPrelude -- 1. Joaquin as my father -- 2. Joaquin as myself -- 3. Joaquin as John Rollin Ridge -- Epilogue: reading with my students 330 $aBlending 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 Joaqui?n Murrieta. In the Mexican American imaginary, the legend of Joaqui?n Murrieta has been recast to explain the wounding of Mexican American men after the 1848 border formation. In these versions, Joaqui?n is a vigilante hero and the patriarchal father of the Chicanx movement. Revisiting the most circulated version of the Joaqui?n myth, The Life and Adventures of Joaqui?n 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, jose? rivers alfaro imagines that in that endless encounter between reader and writer, both time travel and collective healing are possible. 606 $aEthnic studies$2bicssc 606 $aIndigenous peoples$2bicssc 606 $aLGBTQ+ Studies / topics$2bicssc 606 $aMemoirs$2bicssc 606 $aRelating to Indigenous peoples$2bicssc 607 $aUnited States$2fast 608 $aBiographies.$2fast 608 $aFiction.$2fast 608 $aNovels.$2lcgft 610 $a19th-century America;borderlands;California;Chicanx Studies;Indigenous Studies;Joaquin Murrieta;Latinx Studies;Queer Studies 615 7$aEthnic studies 615 7$aIndigenous peoples 615 7$aLGBTQ+ Studies / topics 615 7$aMemoirs 615 7$aRelating to Indigenous peoples 676 $a818/.609 700 $aAlfaro$b Jose? Rivers$01822065 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910597142403321 996 $aSomething more splendid than two$94388121 997 $aUNINA