Understanding John Rechy María DeGuzmán.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeGuzmán, María, author.

Series:

Understanding contemporary American literature.

Understanding contemporary American literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rechy, John--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 pages).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2019]

Summary:

"John Rechy--El Paso, Texas-born novelist, essayist, memoirist, dramatist, and literary critic of Mexican and Scottish descent--published his debut novel City of Night in 1963. This controversial first novel 'remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 25 weeks,' was translated into more than a dozen languages, become an international bestseller, and is widely recognized as 'a great American novel' and a modern classic. Rechy has gone on to publish fourteen more novels (one of them classified as a 'documentary' and not always recognized as a novel), one memoir, and a collection of forty-five essays as well as write at least three plays, one feeding into a novel and two of them based on already existing novels.2 He is still writing from his home in Los Angeles"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Understanding John Rechy

Male homosexual odysseys as cultural critique : City of night, Numbers, This day's death, and The coming of the night

True fictions : The sexual outlaw and After the blue hour

Intermedia, the novels as theater, film, and other experiments : The vampires, The fourth angel, Rushes, and Bodies and souls

The women-centered and Chicana feminist novels and the memoir : Marilyn's daughter, The miraculous day of Amalia Gómez, Our Lady of Babylon, and About my life and the kept woman

The life and adventures of Lyle Clemens and musicophilia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781643360072

1643360078

OCLC:

1100449544