MARC Record from Western Washington University

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050 00 $aPS3557.O4695$bZ46 2006
100 1 $aGonz{acute}alez, Rigoberto.
245 10 $aButterfly boy :$bmemories of a Chicano mariposa /$cRigoberto Gonz{acute}alez.
246 30 $aMemories of a Chicano mariposa
260 $aMadison :$bUniversity of Wisconsin Press,$cc2006.
300 $axii, 207 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aWriting in Latinidad
520 1 $a"Butterfly Boy is a 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." "Growing up among poor migrant Mexican farmworkers, Rigoberto Gonzalez also faces the pressure of coming-of-age as a gay man in a culture that prizes machismo. Losing his mother when he is twelve, Gonzalez must subsequently confront his father's abandonment and an abiding sense of cultural estrangement, both from his adopted home in the United States and from a Mexican birthright that seems increasingly foreign and inhospitable. His only sense of connection gets forged in a violent relationship with an older man. By slowly finding his calling as a writer, and by revisiting the relationship with his father during a revelatory trip to Mexico, Gonzalez finally claims his identity at the complex intersection of race, class, and sexuality. The result is a leap of faith that every reader who ever felt like an outsider will immediately recognize."--BOOK JACKET
600 10 $aGonz{acute}alez, Rigoberto.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aHispanic American gays$vBiography.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip069/2006006990.html
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