Red-inked retablos / / Rigoberto González

• Autore: González Rigoberto
• Pubblicazione: Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (166 p.)
• Disciplina: 814/.54
• Soggetto topico: Gay authors
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: When Butterflies Are Red: Mariposa Literary Activism - Maythee Rojas -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: About Retablos, About Mariposa Memory -- Self-Portraits -- The Truman Capote Aria -- Confessions of a Gay Catholic Boy -- Orphans in the Terrorist World -- Easter Rock: 1983 -- Memory Lessons, Memory Lesions -- Studies -- Andrés Montoya: The Ice Worker Still Sings -- The Poet Ai: An Appreciation -- Beloved Jotoranos -- Lullaby from Thomas James -- Roxana's Melody -- Speeches -- To the Writer, to the Activist, to the Citizen -- The Gay Brown Beret Suite -- Trinity -- Toward a Mariposa Consciousness.
• Sommario/riassunto: In the Mexican Catholic tradition, retablos are ornamental structures made of carved wood framing an oil painting of a devotional image, usually a patron saint.Acclaimed author and essayist Rigoberto González commemorates the passion and the pain of these carvings in his new volume Red-Inked Retablos, a moving memoir of human experience and.
• Titolo autorizzato: Red-inked retablos
• ISBN: 0-8165-9992-0; 1-299-19222-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910958058903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Camino del sol.