LEADER 02781nam 2200505z- 450 001 9910597142403321 005 20241213195830.0 010 $a9781685710651 010 $a1685710654 035 $a(CKB)5590000000962882 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/92637 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000962882 100 $a20202210d2022 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSomething More Splendid Than Two 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2022 215 $a1 electronic resource (114 p.) 311 08$a9781685710644 311 08$a1685710646 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 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. 606 $aMemoirs$2bicssc 606 $aGay & Lesbian studies$2bicssc 606 $aHispanic & Latino studies$2bicssc 606 $aIndigenous peoples$2bicssc 610 $a19th-century America 610 $aborderlands 610 $aCalifornia 610 $aChicanx Studies 610 $aIndigenous Studies 610 $aJoaquin Murrieta 610 $aLatinx Studies 610 $aQueer Studies 615 7$aMemoirs 615 7$aGay & Lesbian studies 615 7$aHispanic & Latino studies 615 7$aIndigenous peoples 700 $aAlfaro$b Jose$4auth$01319310 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910597142403321 996 $aSomething More Splendid Than Two$93033744 997 $aUNINA