The Quixote cult / Genaro Gonzalez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González, Genaro, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Fiction.

Mexican Americans.

College students--Fiction.

College students.

Political activists--Fiction.

Political activists.

Texas--Fiction.

Texas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Houston, Texas : Arte Publico Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Like a Carlos Santana riff on a Miguel de Cervantes theme, The Quixote Cult is a lyrical, satirical look at a group of Vietnam-era Chicano college students and would-be radical activists who gulp down amphetamines as eagerly as they devour the writings of Che Guevara and Jack Kerouac.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

1 Nothing Ever Happens, Until It Happens

2 An Underground Education

3 The Indecipherable Computer

4 Uncle Emiliano Wants You!

5 Slogans on the Streets, Silence on the Home Front

6 Baby Talk, Big-Boy Talk

7 The Ghost of Graduations Past

8 Tripping Down to the Big Mango

9 Pruning the Family Tree, Grafts and All

10 Some Family Ties Tighten, Others Unravel

11 The Unbeatable Foe

12 Kid Quixote

13 Day Care Radicals

14 A Baptism by the River

15 Canon Fodder

16 Give Me Land and Liberty, or Death by Overdose

17 Number One's Not Enough

18 Saint Che and Other Icons

19 Love So Heavy It Hurts to Lift

20 Chiches on Che

21 Working Within the Windmills

22 Our Mano in Havana, Our Men on the Moon

23 Jewish Aztec Princess

24 An Ignoble Near-Death at the Hands of Dentists

25 Overbite the Bullet

26 Protests-to-Go, Pro Bono

27 Love, La Raza, and Other Lost Causes

28 Adelita in Acapulco

29 The Bottomless Hole

30 An Act of God

31 A Disabled Deity

32 Cities of Silver and Gold

33 California Cousins

34 Great to Be Home, Can't Wait to Go Back

35 Ivory Tower of Babel

36 Yosemite Zapata

37 Wherever Death May Embarrass Us

38 Martyrs Don't Matter

39 Old Turks Never Die, They Just Turn Into Eunuchs

40 New Uniforms for a New Ballgame

41 Witch Hunt

42 A Far Journey

43 Acid Indigestion

44 The Nightbirds Return Home to Roost

45 Mosquitos Waiting in the Wings

46 Adios, Dulce Nena

47 The Man From Nowhere Hitchhikes Home.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5185-0302-0

1-5185-0205-9

OCLC:

987102280