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Dancing with ghosts :

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0520231880

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0520243927

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0520938542

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1282358057

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1417562676

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1597345695

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661235805X

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9780520231887

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9780520243927

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9780520938540

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9781282358058

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9781417562671

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9781597345699

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9786612358050

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b706984

Title Proper

Dancing with ghosts :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a critical biography of Arturo Islas /

First Statement of Responsibility

Frederick Luis Aldama.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berkeley :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2005.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xix, 188 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, portraits

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-177) and index.

Text of Note

Acknowledgments; Introduction; One "Sonny"; Two Bio-Graphé; Three Sexuality; Four Death and Rebirth; Five Being Chicano; Coda "A Dancing with Ghosts"; Chronology of Major Events; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Text of Note

This first critical biography of Arturo Islas (1938-1991) brings to life the complex and overlapping worlds inhabited by the gay Chicano poet, novelist, scholar, and professor. The book considers both the larger questions of Islas's life--his sexuality, racial identification, and political personality--and the events of his everyday existence, from his childhood in the borderlands of El Paso to his adulthood in San Francisco and at Stanford University. Aldama describes Islas's struggle with polio as a child, his near-death experience and ileostomy as a thirty-year-old beginning to explore his queer sexuality in San Francisco in the 1970s, and his fatal struggle with AIDS in the late 1980s. He also explores Islas's coming into the craft of poetry and fiction--his extraordinary struggle to publish his novels, as well as his pivotal role in paving the way for a new generation of Chicano/a scholars and writers. --From publisher description.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

JSTOR

Stock Number

22573/cttt5wcs

Title

Dancing with ghosts.

International Standard Book Number

0520243927

Islas, Arturo,1938-1991.

Islas, Arturo,1938-

Islas, Arturo,1938-1991

Stanford University-- Faculty

Stanford University.

Stanford University.

Authors, American-- 20th century, Biography.

English teachers-- United States, Biography.

Mexican American authors, Biography.

Mexican Americans in literature.

Mexican Americans-- Intellectual life.

Authors, American-- 20th century.

Authors, American.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.

English teachers-- United States.

English teachers.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

Mexican American authors.

Mexican American authors.

Mexican Americans in literature.

Mexican Americans in literature.

Mexican Americans-- Intellectual life.

Mexican Americans-- Intellectual life.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Gender Studies.

Universities and colleges-- Faculty.

United States.

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BIO-- 007000

GBC

LIT-- 004020

SOC032000

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Edition

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Book number

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System Code

Aldama, Frederick Luis,1969-

Date of Transaction

20201207220915.0

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