The Miraculous Day Of Amalia Gómez

Author : John Rechy
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555847296

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The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez by John Rechy Pdf

A Los Angeles Latina woman living in poverty and hoping for miracles “comes to stunning and heartbreaking life” in this novel from an award-winning author (Newsday). On a hot, still day in May, Amalia Gómez sees—or thinks she sees—a large silver cross in the sky. Does this vision foretell a miracle? The pragmatic, twice-divorced Amalia is doubtful . . . Amalia’s neighborhood—a decaying area near a shabby part of Hollywood Boulevard—is under attack from gang wars and the police. Her live-in boyfriend is behaving suspiciously, her “fast” teenage daughter Gloria has become too much to handle, and her teenage son is hinting he’s in serious trouble. Most of all, Amalia is haunted by thoughts of her past and her first-born, dead in jail under mysterious circumstances. As the epiphanies and small omens of Amalia’s day build to a climax as wondrous as it is shattering, PEN Center USA’s Lifetime Achievement Award–winning author John Rechy takes us into the complicated life of a Chicano family living in Los Angeles—in all its spirited, gritty reality, giving us “a novel with more truth in it than a carload of best-sellers” (The Washington Post). “A fierce book . . . [told in] tough, uninhibited prose.” —Hartford Courant “A vivid and touching novel . . . Rough, heartbreaking . . . Rechy is masterful.” —San Antonio Express-News “A triumph, a sad, beautiful and loving book rooted in cultural experience as well as deep intuition.” —Newsday “[An] ardently feminist piece of writing. By portraying her abusive past, the poverty and the narrow choices facing Amalia G[ó]mez, Rechy illuminates the plight of certain minority women who remain locked in the dark ages of female emancipation, shut off from any help . . . Amalia G[ó]mez may be the main character, but poverty and ignorance, injustice and fear, are the real subjects of this engaging novel.” —Los Angeles Times

Author : John Rechy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1322483264

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Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez by John Rechy Pdf

Author : John Rechy
Publisher : Arcade Pub
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1559702036

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The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez by John Rechy Pdf

A moving, harsh, and tender novel about one day in the life of a Mexican-American, by the bestselling author of City of Night and Marilyn's Daughter.

Author : John Rechy
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0517128837

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Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez by John Rechy Pdf

These two novels introduce us to two faces of the same terrain. In The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez, Amalia Gomez thinks she sees a large silver cross in the sky. A miraculous sign, perhaps, but one the down-to-earth Amalia does not trust. Through Amalia, we take a vivid and moving tour of the "other Hollywood", populated by working-class Mexican Americans, as John Rechy blends tough realism with religious and cultural fables to take us into the life of a Chicano family in L.A. Epic in scope and vision, The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gomez is classic Rechy.

Author : David W. Foster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317944461

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Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Identities by David W. Foster Pdf

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : James Richard Giles
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1570033285

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Violence in the Contemporary American Novel by James Richard Giles Pdf

Framing his study with two cases of violence involving children in Chicago, he notes the degree to which violence in the novels is perpetrated by adults against children or, even more shockingly, by children against children.".

Author : John Rechy
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782837855

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City of Night by John Rechy Pdf

Bold and inventive in style, City of Night is the groundbreaking 1960s novel about male prostitution. Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling 'youngman' and his search for self-knowledge among the other denizens of his neon-lit world. As the narrator moves from Texas to Times Square and then on to the French Quarter of New Orleans, Rechy delivers a portrait of the edges of America that has lost none of its power. On his travels, the nameless narrator meets a collection of unforgettable characters, from vice cops to guilt-ridden married men eaten up by desire, to Lance O'Hara, once Hollywood's biggest star. Rechy describes this world with candour and understanding in a prose that is highly personal and vividly descriptive.

Author : John Rechy
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802151973

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The Fourth Angel by John Rechy Pdf

This is the compelling, ferociously relevant story of four teenagers playing deadly games with drugs, sex, and one another. Behind a facade of tough cynicism, on a raging search for kicks, they explore the hot, dusty city, bent on trouble.

Author : John Rechy
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802131638

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The Sexual Outlaw by John Rechy Pdf

In this angry, eloquent outcry against the oppression of homosexuals, the author of the classic City of Night gives "an explosive non-fiction account, with commentaries, of three days and nights in the sexual underground" of Los Angeles in the 1970s--the "battlefield" of the sexual outlaw. Using the language and techniqus of the film, Rechy deftly intercuts the despairing, joyful, and defiant confessions of a male hustler with the "chorus" of his own subversive reflections on sexual identity and sexual politics, and with stark documentary reports our society directs against homosexuals--"the only minority against whose existence there are laws."

Author : María DeGuzmán
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781643360072

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Understanding John Rechy by María DeGuzmán Pdf

In this first book-length monograph on the Mexican American novelist, essayist, and playwright John Rechy, best known for his debut novel City of Night, María DeGuzmán offers a conceptually clear yet aesthetically, philosophically, and socio-politically fine-grained analysis of the spectrum of his writing. Recipient of PEN Center USA's Lifetime Achievement Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, ONE Magazine's National Gay and Lesbian Cultural Hero Award, the William Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Luis Leal Award for Excellence in Chicano/Latino Literature, and the Robert Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement, Rechy is the author of fifteen novels, at least three plays, and several volumes of nonfiction. He has written for the Nation, the New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, the New York Times, and Saturday Review. In Understanding John Rechy, María DeGuzmán offers a brief biographical overview and then traces the development of Rechy's craft through his major works by calling attention to central issues, recurring situations and characters, styles, and special techniques. She examines the complexities of his representation of identity, the subjectivity in his male homosexual odyssey and identity quest novels, and his experimentation with genre. She offers a concise yet intricate analysis of the major organizing paradigms and themes, genres, modes, styles, and handling of the gay Chicano's oeuvre. The book's guiding analysis pays particular attention to the ways in which Rechy's works function as cultural critique challenging mainstream values in a deep-structure manner.

Author : John Rechy
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802193124

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Marilyn's Daughter by John Rechy Pdf

A vivid reimagining of the life and legacy of Marilyn Monroe: “A massive, magnetic story by a major American novelist writing at the peak of his powers” (San Francisco Chronicle). When eighteen-year-old Normalyn discovers a letter asserting that Marilyn Monroe was her true mother, she travels from Texas to Los Angeles to uncover the truth . . . and ventures deep into a maze of untold Hollywood history. Through the memories of others, Normalyn recreates Marilyn’s secret life. She encounters David Lange, a prize-winning writer obsessed with the actress’s legend; Mildred Meadows, who once ruled Hollywood—and Washington—with her gossip column; the fabulous nightclub entertainer Troja; Dr. and Mrs. Crouch, once hired by the movie studios to tell any lie and conceal any truth, no matter what the cost in destroyed lives; and Miss Bertha, a gentle old recluse, who may have been the confident of great stars. This startling modern epic by the author of City of Night and The Sexual Outlaw brings to life the beautiful, tragic figure of Marilyn Monroe and two other historical figures crucial to Normalyn’s quest: John and Robert Kennedy. A unique literary creation that explores the origins of legends and their power over truth, this novel introduces in Normalyn Morgan, one of the most memorable heroines in modern American fiction.

Author : Luz Elena Ramirez
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438140605

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Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature by Luz Elena Ramirez Pdf

Presents a reference on Hispanic American literature providing profiles of Hispanic American writers and their works.

Author : Bridget A. Kevane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0742543153

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Profane & Sacred by Bridget A. Kevane Pdf

Profane & Sacred examines religious discourse in contemporary Latino/a fiction, exploring how religion creates, mediates or changes Latino culture and identity. Much contemporary literary criticism on Latino/a literature has focused on the bilingual and bicultural nature of Latino identity, history and cultural production. But just as the multiplicity of cultures and languages has shaped Latino identity and history, so too has religion. Studying the religious discourse found in fiction can clearly enrich not only our perception of the diversity within the Hispanic communities, but also the diversity between sociologists and creative writers.

Author : John Rechy
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555848118

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About My Life and the Kept Woman by John Rechy Pdf

The long-awaited memoir by “one of the few original American writers of the last century” is a testament to the power of self-acceptance (Gore Vidal). John Rechy, author of City of Night and The Sexual Outlaw, has always known discrimination. Raised Mexican-American in El Paso, Texas, at a time when Latino children were routinely segregated, Rechy was often assumed to be Anglo because of his light skin, and had his name “changed” for him by a teacher, from Juan to John. As he grew older—and as his fascination with the memory of a notorious kept woman in his childhood deepened—Rechy became aware that his differences lay not just in his heritage, but in his sexuality. While he performed the roles expected of him by others—the authoritarians in the US Army during the Korean War, the bigoted relatives of his Anglo college classmates, or the men and women who wanted him to be something he was not—he never allowed them to define him. The “riveting” story of a life that bears witness to some of the most riotous changes of the past century, About My Life and the Kept Woman is as much a portrait of intolerance as of an individual who defied it to forge his own path (The Advocate). “Rechy might be called the first bard of West Hollywood.” —The New York Times “A skillfully paced story . . . As a memoirist, Rechy is both participant and observer, and he segues as easily between narrative and exegesis as his younger self did between the lure of the wild streets and the embrace of his traditional family.” —Los Angeles Magazine

Author : Arturo J. Aldama,Naomi Helena Quiñonez
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0253214920

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Decolonial Voices by Arturo J. Aldama,Naomi Helena Quiñonez Pdf

The interdisciplinary essays in Decolonial Voices discuss racialized, subaltern, feminist, and diasporic identities and the aesthetic politics of hybrid and mestiza/o cultural productions. This collection represents several key directions in the field: First, it charts how subaltern cultural productions of the US/ Mexico borderlands speak to the intersections of "local," "hemispheric," and "globalized" power relations of the border imaginary. Second, it recovers the Mexican women's and Chicana literary and cultural heritages that have been ignored by Euro-American canons and patriarchal exclusionary practices. It also expands the field in postnationalist directions by creating an interethnic, comparative, and transnational dialogue between Chicana and Chicano, African American, Mexican feminist, and U.S. Native American cultural vocabularies. Contributors include Norma Alarcón, Arturo J. Aldama, Frederick Luis Aldama, Cordelia Chávez Candelaria, Alejandra Elenes, Ramón Garcia, María Herrera-Sobek, Patricia Penn Hilden, Gaye T. M. Johnson, Alberto Ledesma, Pancho McFarland, Amelia María de la Luz Montes, Laura Elisa Pérez, Naomi Quiñonez, Sarah Ramirez, Rolando J. Romero, Delberto Dario Ruiz, Vicki Ruiz, José David Saldívar, Anna Sandoval, and Jonathan Xavier Inda.