Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 207 p)
ISBN:
1282270257
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9781282270251
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9780299219031
Series Statement:
Writing in Latinidad
Content:
Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, Butterfly Boy is a unique coming out and coming-of-age story of a first-generation Chicano who trades one life for another, only to discover that history and memory are not exchangeable or forgettable.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Smarting Points, Starting Points -- Summer's Passage, Southern California, 1990 -- Welcome to Indio, California, Pop. 36,793 -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover -- Now Leaving Mexicali, Baja California, Norte -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover -- Part 2: Childhood and Other Language Lessons -- Bakersfield, California, 1970-72 -- Zacapu, México, 1972-79 -- Thermal, California, 1979-80 -- Thermal, 1981-82 (Our Little House on Top of the Garage) -- Summer's Passage -- Part 3: Adolescent Mariposa -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover -- Indio, 1983-88 ("El Campo" Years) -- Part 4: Zacapu Days and Nights of the Dead -- Summer's Passage -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover -- Zacapu, July 1990 (Imago) -- Part 5: Unpinned -- Riverside, California -- Ghost Whisper to My Lover.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part 1: Smarting Points, Starting Points""; ""Summer's Passage, Southern California, 1990""; ""Welcome to Indio, California, Pop. 36,793""; ""Ghost Whisper to My Lover""; ""Now Leaving Mexicali, Baja California, Norte""; ""Ghost Whisper to My Lover""; ""Part 2: Childhood and Other Language Lessons""; ""Bakersfield, California, 1970-72""; ""Zacapu, México, 1972-79""; ""Thermal, California, 1979-80""; ""Thermal, 1981-82 (Our Little House on Top of the Garage)""; ""Summer's Passage""; ""Part 3: Adolescent Mariposa""; ""Ghost Whisper to My Lover""
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""Indio, 1983-88 ("El Campo" Years)""""Part 4: Zacapu Days and Nights of the Dead""; ""Summer's Passage""; ""Ghost Whisper to My Lover""; ""Zacapu, July 1990 (Imago)""; ""Part 5: Unpinned""; ""Riverside, California""; ""Ghost Whisper to My Lover""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0299214745
Additional Edition:
Print version Butterfly Boy : Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Language:
English
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