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BL
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952614
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b706984
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Aldama, Frederick Luis,1969-
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| Title & Author
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Dancing with ghosts : : a critical biography of Arturo Islas /\ Frederick Luis Aldama.
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| Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©2005.
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1 online resource (xix, 188 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations, portraits
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| ISBN
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0520231880
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: 0520243927
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: 0520938542
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: 1282358057
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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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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-177) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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.
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Islas, Arturo,1938-1991.
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Islas, Arturo,1938-
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Islas, Arturo,1938-1991
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Stanford University-- Faculty
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Stanford University.
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Stanford University.
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Authors, American-- 20th century, Biography.
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English teachers-- United States, Biography.
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Mexican American authors, Biography.
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Mexican Americans in literature.
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Mexican Americans-- Intellectual life.
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Authors, American.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.
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English teachers.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Mexican American authors.
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Mexican Americans in literature.
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Mexican Americans-- Intellectual life.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Gender Studies.
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Universities and colleges-- Faculty.
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Authors, American-- 20th century.
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English teachers-- United States.
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Mexican American authors.
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Mexican Americans in literature.
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Mexican Americans-- Intellectual life.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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818/.5409B
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| LC Classification
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PS3559.S44Z54 2005eb
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| NLM classification
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K837. 126clc
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K837. 126.clc
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