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Start Me Up
(Hardcover)
Jeannie Edmunds
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Drawing on a wide range of material from art, theater, music, and
literature, Contreras argues that historical memory is embedded in
these forms of art and can perhaps take us "somewhere better than
this place." The critical energies in the book come from Chicana/o
and queer studies. Contreras views unrequited love as a utopian
space of possibility and transformation. The discussion includes
The Boys in the Band, Arturo Islas, Paris is Burning, Judy Garland,
and Kiss of the Spider Woman.
The creation of texts preserves culture, literature, myth, and
society, and provides invaluable insights into history. Yet we
still have much to learn about the history of how those texts were
produced and how the production of texts has influenced modern
societies, particularly in smaller nations like Wales. The story of
publishing in Wales is closely connected to the story of Wales
itself. Wales, the Welsh people, and the Welsh language have
survived invasion, migration, oppression, revolt, resistance,
religious and social upheaval, and economic depression. The books
of Wales chronicle this story and the Welsh people's endurance over
centuries of challenges. Ancient law-books, medieval manuscripts,
legends and myths, secretly printed religious works, poetry, song,
social commentary, and modern novels tell a story of a tiny nation,
its hardy people, and an enduring literary legacy that has an
outsized influence on culture and literature far beyond the Welsh
borders.
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