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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Arizona Press

ISBN-100816524602

ISBN-139780816524600

eBay Product ID (ePID)47862282

Product Key Features

Edition3

Book TitleHow to Name a Hurricane

Number of Pages176 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicHispanic & Latino, Natural Disasters, Short Stories (Single Author)

GenreNature, Fiction

AuthorRane Arroyo

Book SeriesCamino Del Sol Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight10.1 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-029225

ReviewsArroyo's collection embraces midnight storms and morning calm, humor and pain, Puerto Rican heat and cold Chicago wind. By the end of this book, you'll be naked enough to feel the green sparks of another body beside you in the darkened room., Arroyo's writing is exciting and original." — Multicultural Review An entertaining, intriguing, fascinating, and eye-opening collection of works." — Bloomsbury Review, "Arroyo's writing is exciting and original." -- Multicultural Review "An entertaining, intriguing, fascinating, and eye-opening collection of works." -- Bloomsbury Review "Funny, sexy, political, and with linguistic verve to burn, the voices that comprise poet Rane Arroy's innovative first collection of fictions sing all the colors of the rainbow and then some." --Robin Lippincott, Arroyo's writing is exciting and original." - Multicultural Review An entertaining, intriguing, fascinating, and eye-opening collection of works." - Bloomsbury Review, "Arroyo's writing is exciting and original." - Multicultural Review "An entertaining, intriguing, fascinating, and eye-opening collection of works." - Bloomsbury Review, "Arroyo's writing is exciting and original." -- Multicultural Review "An entertaining, intriguing, fascinating, and eye-opening collection of works." -- Bloomsbury Review "Funny, sexy, political, and with linguistic verve to burn, the voices that comprise poet Rane Arroy's innovative first collection of fictions sing all the colors of the rainbow and then some."--Robin Lippincott

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal818/.5409

SynopsisThere's no denying it , media culture has ushered in a new era of visibility for gays in America. Yet somehow the gay Latino doesn't fit into this sound-bite identity and usually isn't included in national media images. Rane Arroyo offers a corrective. Known primarily as a poet and playwright representing the gay Latino community, Arroyo has also been publishing prose throughout his career and now gathers into this book a storm of writing that has been gaining strength, drop by drop, for more than ten years. How to Name a Hurricane collects short stories and other fictions depicting Latino drag queens and leather men, religious sinners and happy atheists, working class heroes and cyberspace vaqueros--a parade of characters that invites readers to consider whether one is more authentic a gay Latino than another. Whereas actual hurricanes are given names, the gays given voice in this collection must name themselves--and these narratives in turn reveal something of the "I" of Hurricane Rane. Whether portraying a family gathering as Brideshead Revisited with a mambo soundtrack, recounting the relationship of transvestite Louie/Lois and her bisexual Superman, or bemoaning "feeling as unsexy as an old bean burrito in a 7-11 microwave," Arroyo tracks the heartbeat of his characters through a shimmering palette of styles. Here are monologues, a story in verse, and other experimental forms appropriate to experimental lives--all affirming the basic human rights to dignity, equality, love, and even silliness. When the AIDS epidemic first hit, many Latino families destroyed any remembrances of their gay and bisexual sons that might betray their pasts to la familia or el pueblo . Arroyo's writings return the ghosts of those sons to the families, bars, dance clubs, and neighborhoods where they belong. By penetrating to the I's of narrative hurricanes, these stories honor the survivors of our ongoing cultural storms., There's no denying it, media culture has ushered in a new era of visibility for gays in America. Yet somehow the gay Latino doesn't fit into this sound-bite identity and usually isn't included in national media images. Rane Arroyo offers a corrective. Known primarily as a poet and playwright representing the gay Latino community,

LC Classification NumberPS3551.R722H69 2005