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- Autobiography of My Hungers
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- 2013
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
- Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog
- Funder: Big Ten Academic Alliance
- Program: Big Ten Open Books
- Collection: Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Rigoberto González, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, takes a second piercing look at his past through a startling new lens: hunger.
The need for sustenance originating in childhood poverty, the adolescent emotional need for solace and comfort, the adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body—all are explored by González in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes.
Each vignette is a defining moment of self-awareness, every moment an important step in a lifelong journey toward clarity, knowledge, and the nourishment that comes in various forms—even "the smallest biggest joys" help piece together a complex portrait of a gay man of color who at last defines himself by what he learns, not by what he yearns for.
Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Publishing Triangle
“Told in a series of revealing vignettes and poems, González’s Autobiography of my Hungers turns moments of need and want into revelations of truth and self-awareness, creating the portrait of an artist that is complex if not entirely complete.”—El Paso Times
“Through his provocative vignettes, González communicates a lifetime of struggle for affirmation and self-acceptance.”—Make/Shift
Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Publishing Triangle
“Told in a series of revealing vignettes and poems, González’s Autobiography of my Hungers turns moments of need and want into revelations of truth and self-awareness, creating the portrait of an artist that is complex if not entirely complete.”—El Paso Times
“Through his provocative vignettes, González communicates a lifetime of struggle for affirmation and self-acceptance.”—Make/Shift
Table of Contents
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- Copyright, Half Title Page
- pp. i-ii
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Copyright Page
- p. iv
- Dedication
- pp. v-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- I. leaving the motherland, mother leaving me
- II. unsettled independence
- night shift
- pp. 52-53
- III. in search of paradise
- IV. body cravings
- extraction
- pp. 106-107
| ISBN | 9780299292546 |
|---|---|
| Related ISBN(s) | 978029929250, 9780299292591 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 841908693 |
| Pages | 64 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2013-08-12 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Funder | Big Ten Academic Alliance |
| Creative Commons | CC-BY-NC |
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