{"title":"Literary Criticism--Caribbean \u0026 Latin American","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"funeral-for-flaca","title":"Funeral for Flaca","description":"\u003cp\u003eFuneral for Flaca\u003cstrong\u003e is an exploration of things lost and found-love, identity, family-and the traumas that transcend bodies, borders, cultures, and generations.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmilly Prado retraces her experience coming of age as a prep-turned-chola-turned-punk in this collection that is one-part memoir-in-essays, and one-part playlist, zigzagging across genres and decades, much like the rapidly changing and varied tastes of her youth. Emilly spends the late 90's and early aughts looking for acceptance as a young Chicana growing up in the mostly-white suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area before moving to Portland, Oregon in 2008. \u003cem\u003eNi de aquí, ni de allá\u003c\/em\u003e, she tries to find her place in the in between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing up, the boys reject her, her father cheats on her mother, then the boys cheat on her and she cheats on them. At 21-years-old, Emilly checks herself into a psychiatric ward after a mental breakdown. One year later, she becomes a survivor of sexual assault. A few years after that, she survives another attempted assault. She searches for the antidote that will cure her, cycling through love, heartbreak, sex, an eating disorder, alcohol, an ever-evolving style, and, of course, music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe captures the painful reality of what it means to lose and find your identity, many times over again. For anyone who has ever lost their way as a child or as an adult, \u003cem\u003eFuneral for Flaca\u003c\/em\u003e unravels the complex layers of an unpredictable life, inviting us into an intimate and honest journey profoundly told with humor and heart by Emilly Prado. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I felt these essays deep in my heart. \u003cem\u003eFuneral for Flaca\u003c\/em\u003e is like a Chicana punk rock ballad in prose. Soulful and brave, these essays of Prado's life made me feel less lonely, less outcasted, and more seen-and isn't that why we come to books in the first place?\" -Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of \u003cem\u003eSabrina \u0026amp; Corina\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Once I started reading \u003cem\u003eFuneral for Flaca\u003c\/em\u003e, I could not stop. The series of essays traverses Prado's life and weaves a narrative that is gripping and beautifully told. Each essay is a finely crafted tribute to periods in Prado's labyrinthine path, intersecting trauma, pathology, loss and, ultimately, perseverance and healing.\" -Lisa Congdon, artist and author of \u003cem\u003eFind Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This book is brilliant. It tells the unique stories of what it means to grow up Latina in the U.S. and the universal experiences of love, coming of age and finding your own voice and self. Prado weaves personal stories that make you laugh, cry and give you hope for the future.\" -Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, author and co-editor of \u003cem\u003ePresente!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Emilly Prado's \u003cem\u003eFuneral For Flaca\u003c\/em\u003e is fierce, funny, intelligent, and vulnerable. This memoir-in-essays speaks with ease and honesty about the ferociously hard, isolating moments of youth, and Prado's matter-of-fact tone reads like a friend's voice talking us through the worst of it. \u003cem\u003eFuneral for Flaca\u003c\/em\u003e is here to remind us: there is a woman lying dormant inside every girl.\" -Margaret Malone, author of \u003cem\u003ePeople Like You\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1892061872\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781892061874\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Prado, Emilly, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Future Tense Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Future Tense Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jul 2021)","offer_id":45657237029061,"sku":"9781892061874","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781892061874.jpg?v=1768889848"},{"product_id":"poetics-of-relation","title":"Poetics of Relation","description":"Édouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers. Born in Martinique in 1928, Glissant earned a doctorate from the Sorbonne. When he returned to his native land in the mid-sixties, his writing began to focus on the idea of a \"relational poetics,\" which laid the groundwork for the \"créolité\" movement, fueled by the understanding that Caribbean culture and identity are the positive products of a complex and multiple set of local historical circumstances. Some of the metaphors of local identity Glissant favored--the hinterland (or lack of it), the maroon (or runaway slave), the creole language--proved lasting and influential. \u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePoetics of Relation\u003c\/i\u003e, Glissant turns the concrete particulars of Caribbean reality into a complex, energetic vision of a world in transformation. He sees the Antilles as enduring suffering imposed by history, yet as a place whose unique interactions will one day produce an emerging global consensus. Arguing that the writer alone can tap the unconscious of a people and apprehend its multiform culture to provide forms of memory capable of transcending \"nonhistory,\" Glissant defines his \"poetics of relation\"--both aesthetic and political--as a transformative mode of history, capable of enunciating and making concrete a French-Caribbean reality with a self-defined past and future. Glissant's notions of identity as constructed in relation and not in isolation are germane not only to discussions of Caribbean creolization but also to our understanding of U.S. multiculturalism. 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