Research Catalog

Title

How to name a hurricane / Rane Arroyo.

Author

Arroyo, Rane.

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Description

xiii, 166 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"There's no denying it, media culture has ushered in a new era of visibility for gays in America. Yet somehow the gay Latino doesn't fit into this sound-bite identity and usually isn't included in national media images. Rane Arroyo offers a corrective." "How to Name a Hurricane collects short stories and other fictions depicting Latino drag queens and leather men, religious sinners and happy atheists, working class heroes and cyberspace vaqueros - a parade of characters that invites readers to consider whether one is more authentic a gay Latino than another. Whereas actual hurricanes are given names, the gays given voice in this collection must name themselves - and these narratives in turn reveal something of the "I" of Hurricane Rane. Here are monologues, a story in verse, and other experimental forms appropriate to experimental lives - all affirming the basic human rights to dignity, equality, love, and even silliness."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Camino del sol

Uniform Title

Camino del sol.

Subject

Hispanic American gays > Fiction

Contents

Introduction : the naked ventriloquist -- My blue midnights -- The Europe of their scars -- Cyber conquistadors -- Amateur Telenovelas -- Rat poison : the book of Marcus Mar -- Lois and her supermen -- Someone's in the kitchen with Jose -- Blood never rusts : a Novella in Verse -- X, my EX -- The macho dolls : flash fictions.

ISBN

0816524602 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2004029225

OCLC

• ocm57357473
• SCSB-5214466

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries