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Magical Habits (Hardcover)
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Magical Habits (Hardcover)
Series: Writing Matters!
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In Magical Habits Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up
in her family's Mexican restaurants and her life as a scholar of
literature and culture to meditate on how relationships among self,
place, race, and storytelling contend with both the afterlives of
history and racial capitalism. Whether dwelling on mundane aspects
of everyday life, such as the smell of old kitchen grease, or
grappling with the thorny, unsatisfying question of authenticity,
Huerta stages a dynamic conversation among genres, voices, and
archives: personal and critical essays exist alongside a fairy
tale; photographs and restaurant menus complement fictional
monologues based on her family's history. Developing a new mode of
criticism through storytelling, Huerta takes readers through Cook
County courtrooms, the Cristero Rebellion (in which her
great-grandfather was martyred by the Mexican government), Japanese
baths in San Francisco-and a little bit about Chaucer too.
Ultimately, Huerta sketches out habits of living while thinking
that allow us to consider what it means to live with and try to
peer beyond history even as we are caught up in the middle of it.
Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
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