Emma Perez

Gulf Dreams (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gulf Dreams is the story of a Chicana who comes of age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsessive love for a young woman, her best friend since childhood. "e;A powerful, gripping, and disturbing story of passion and betrayal, survival and vengeance, compulsion and resilience, told in arresting images and fragmented, dreamlike narrative"e;-Teresa de Lauretis, professor of History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz. "e;This amalgam of life history, creative nonfiction, psychoanalytic treatise and fictionalized memoirs is a welcome addition to queer literature"e;-Gloria Anzaldua, author of Borderlands/La Frontera.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aunt Lute Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781939904164
• Artikelnr.: 52483001

Autorenporträt

Born in El Campo, Texas, Emma Pérez has published essays in history and feminist theory as well as The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History. Her novel, Gulf Dreams, was first published in 1996 and was considered to be one of the first Chicana lesbian novels in print. Pérez earned her Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Los Angeles. In fall 2003, she joined the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her most recent novel, Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory, (University of Texas Press, 2009) is a Chicana lesbian western that challenges white-male-centered westerns and was awarded the Christopher Isherwood Fiction Writing Grant in December 2009.