Gulf Dreams
Author | : Emma Pérez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
ISBN-10 | : 1879960818 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781879960817 |
Rating | : 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "A powerful, gripping, and disturbing story of passion and betrayal, survival and vengeance, compulsion and resilience, told in arresting images and fragmented, dreamlike narrative."--Teresa de Lauretis, professor of History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz "This amalgam of life history, creative non-fiction, psychoanalytic treatise and fictionalized memoirs is a welcome addition to queer literature."--Gloria Anzaldúa, author of Borderlands Gulf Dreams is the story of a Chicana who comes of age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsessive love for a young woman, her best friend since childhood.