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001 2014044590
003 DLC
005 20150920074238.0
008 141212s2015 txu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2014044590
020 $a9780896729308 (softcover : acid-free)
020 $z9780896729315 (ebook)
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050 00 $aPS3606.L587$bS49 2015
082 00 $a813/.6$223
100 1 $aFlores, Carlos Nicolas.
245 10 $aSex as a political condition :$ba border novel /$cCarlos Nicoas Flores.
264 1 $aLubbock, Texas :$bTexas Tech University Press,$c2015.
300 $axii, 390 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aThe Americas series
520 $a"Sex as a Political Condition: A Border Novel is a raucous, hilarious journey through political dangers that come in all shapes, cup sizes, and sexual identities, a trip into the wild, sometimes outrageous world of the Texas-Mexico border and all geographical and anatomical points south. Honoré del Castillo runs the family curio shop in the backwater border town of Escandón, Texas, and fears dying in front of his TV like some six-pack José in his barrio. Encouraged by his friend Trotsky, he becomes politically active -- smuggling refugees, airlifting guns to Mexican revolutionaries, negotiating with radical Chicana lesbians -- but the naked truths he faces are more often naked than true and constantly threaten to unman him. When a convoy loaded with humanitarian aid bound for Nicaragua pulls into Escandón, his journey to becoming a true revolutionary hero begins, first on Escandón's international bridge and then on the highways of Mexico. But not until both the convoy and Honoré's mortality and manhood are threatened in Guatemala does he finally confront the complications of his love for his wife and daughter, his political principles, the stench of human fear, and ultimately what it means to be a principled man in a screwed-up world"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"A satirical account of the cultural wars on the Mexican-American border"--Provided by publisher"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aCulture conflict$vFiction.
651 0 $aMexican-American Border Region$vFiction.
655 0 $aPolitical fiction.
655 7 $aSatire.$2gsafd