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- Author: Ramón GarcÃa
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- ISBN-10: 1597094285
- ISBN-13: 9781597094283
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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By evoking the Old Testament book referenced in the title of the collection, The Chronicles recounts distinctive aspects of a Mexican American's presence in California. Fairy tales, bible stories, and Greek myths are reinvented as the genealogy of a poet obsessed by memory and the transformations of dislocation. The Frog Prince longs to be a frog again, Sleeping Beauty doesn't know who she is, Medusa is a misunderstood femme-fatale, Bluebeard is a desired eccentric, and Marilyn Monroe wins the first annual Miss Artichoke beauty contest. Ramón GarcÃa brings to life landscapes populated by misfits who find--like their mythical counterparts--a sense of belonging between the marvelous and the ordinary, memory and reality. In coming to terms with the intricacies of immigration and migration, GarcÃa defamiliarizes well-known tales, rewriting enchanting and disturbing versions of stories we thought we knew.
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- Author: Ramón GarcÃa
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- ISBN-10: 1597094285
- ISBN-13: 9781597094283
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.8 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
By evoking the Old Testament book referenced in the title of the collection, The Chronicles recounts distinctive aspects of a Mexican American's presence in California. Fairy tales, bible stories, and Greek myths are reinvented as the genealogy of a poet obsessed by memory and the transformations of dislocation. The Frog Prince longs to be a frog again, Sleeping Beauty doesn't know who she is, Medusa is a misunderstood femme-fatale, Bluebeard is a desired eccentric, and Marilyn Monroe wins the first annual Miss Artichoke beauty contest. Ramón GarcÃa brings to life landscapes populated by misfits who find--like their mythical counterparts--a sense of belonging between the marvelous and the ordinary, memory and reality. In coming to terms with the intricacies of immigration and migration, GarcÃa defamiliarizes well-known tales, rewriting enchanting and disturbing versions of stories we thought we knew.
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