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Dancing with Ghosts - A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas (Paperback, New edition)
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Dancing with Ghosts - A Critical Biography of Arturo Islas (Paperback, New edition)
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This first critical biography of Arturo Islas (1938 1991) brings to
life the complex and overlapping worlds inhabited by the gay
Chicano poet, novelist, scholar, and professor. Gracefully written
and deeply researched, "Dancing with Ghosts "considers both the
larger questions of Islas's lifeOCohis sexuality, racial
identification, and political personalityOCoand the events of his
everyday existence, from his childhood in the borderlands of El
Paso to his adulthood in San Francisco and at Stanford University.
Frederick Aldama portrays the many facets of Islas's engaging and
often contradictory personality. He also explores Islas's coming
into the craft of poetry and fictionOCohis extraordinary struggle
to publish his novels, "The Rain God, La Mollie and the King of
Tears, "and "Migrant Souls"OCoas well as his pivotal role in paving
the way for a new generation of Chicano/a scholars and writers.
Through a skillful interweaving of life history, criticism, and
literary theory, Aldama paints an unusually rich and wide-ranging
portrait of both the man and the eventful times in which he lived.
He describes Islas's struggle with polio as a child, his near-death
experience and ileostomy as a thirty-year-old beginning to explore
his queer sexuality in San Francisco in the 1970s, and his fatal
struggle with AIDS in the late 1980s. Drawing from hundreds of
unpublished letters, lecture notes, drafts of essays, novels, and
poetry archived at Stanford University, Aldama also deals frankly
with the controversies that swirled around Islas's impassioned love
life, his drug addictions, and his scholarly and professional
career as one of the first Chicano/a professors in the United
States. He discusses the importance of Islas's pioneering role in
bridging Anglo, Latin American, Chicano/a, and European
storytelling styles and voices. "Dancing with Ghosts "succeeds
brilliantly both as an account of a fascinating life that embraced
many different worlds and as a chronicle of the grand historical
shifts that transformed the late-twentieth-century American
cultural landscape."
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