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Informationen zum Autor Frederick Luis Aldama is Associate Professor of U.S. Ethnic and Postcolonial Literature in the English Department at the University of Colorado! Boulder. He is the author of Postethnic Narrative Criticism: Magicorealism in Ana Castillo! Hanif Kureishi! Julie Dash! Oscar "Zeta" Acosta! and Salman Rushdie (2003) and editor of Arturo Islas: The Uncollected Works (2003) and of the forthcoming Critical Mappings of Arturo Islas's Narrative Fictions and Contemporary Chicano/a Letters Mapped by Interview. Klappentext "Aldama's gracefully written biography of Arturo Islas will make a major contribution to U.S. literary and cultural studies. To read Aldama's Dancing with Ghosts is to enter the world of the Chicano imaginative writer! Arturo Islas! as never before. Drawing on a vast instructive archive of unpublished documents! Aldama probes Islas's mind! uncovers Islas's passions! and follows the writer and scholar's career."-José David Saldívar! author of Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies and The Dialectics of Our America "Arturo Islas identified variously as writer! hedonist! Chicano! academic! gay! Catholic! and aesthete! crossing the borders between these roles with thoughtful abandon. His dark life shines brilliantly in Frederick Aldama's Dancing with Ghosts . To know Islas intimately is to understand a life lived fully and painfully! one whose literary legacy touches us still."-Tom Miller! author of On the Border: Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier " Danicing with Ghosts is a brilliant excursion into the life of critically acclaimed Chicano writer! Arturo Islas. Author Frederick Aldama weaves a textured narrative of a life marked by brilliance and illness; talent and addictions; writing and sexuality. Aldama's work sensitively and splendidly reconstructs the biography of a talented poet/novelist and in so doing provides the reader with a different cartography of the Chicano/a experience."-Maria Herrera-Sobek! author of The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis Zusammenfassung Presents the biography of Arturo Islas (1938-1991) which brings to life the complex and overlapping worlds inhabited by the gay Chicano poet, novelist, scholar, and professor. This book considers both the larger questions of Islas' life his sexuality, racial identification, and political personality and the events of his everyday existence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Bringing the Dead to Life Chapter One: "Sonny" Chapter Two: Bio-Graph Chapter Three: Sexuality Chapter Four: Death and Rebirth Chapter Five: Being Chicano Coda: "A Dancing with Ghosts" Chronology of Major Events Notes Bibliography Index ...
