Red-inked retablos / Rigoberto González.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González, Rigoberto.

Series:

Camino del sol.

Camino del sol : a Latina and Latino literary series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

González, Rigoberto.

Gay authors--Biography.

Gay authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the Mexican Catholic tradition, retablos are ornamental structures made of carved wood framing an oil painting of a devotional image, usually a patron saint.Acclaimed author and essayist Rigoberto González commemorates the passion and the pain of these carvings in his new volume Red-Inked Retablos, a moving memoir of human experience and.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword: When Butterflies Are Red: Mariposa Literary Activism - Maythee Rojas

Acknowledgments

Introduction: About Retablos, About Mariposa Memory

Self-Portraits

The Truman Capote Aria

Confessions of a Gay Catholic Boy

Orphans in the Terrorist World

Easter Rock: 1983

Memory Lessons, Memory Lesions

Studies

Andrés Montoya: The Ice Worker Still Sings

The Poet Ai: An Appreciation

Beloved Jotoranos

Lullaby from Thomas James

Roxana's Melody

Speeches

To the Writer, to the Activist, to the Citizen

The Gay Brown Beret Suite

Trinity

Toward a Mariposa Consciousness.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8165-9992-0

1-299-19222-X

OCLC:

828490618