Magical/realism : essays on music, memory, fantasy, and borders

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"In Magical/Realism, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal offers us an intimate mosaic of migration, violence, and colonial erasure through the lens of her marriage and her experiences navigating American monoculture. As she attempts to recover the truth from the absences and silences within her life, her relationships, and those of her ancestors, Vanessa pieces together her story from the fragments of music, memory, and fantasy that have helped her make...

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ISBN:

9780593187142

Description:

xi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Essays on music, memory, fantasy, and borders

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-370)

Contents:

The migrant's journey
About a girl
All the Atreyus at the Sphinx Gate
Encyclopedia of all the daughters I couldn't be : Buen Niäna, Americana
After the world-breaking, world-building
Encyclopedia of all the daughters I couldn't be : Bonita
Curanderismo
Encyclopedia of all the daughters I couldn't be : Mexicana
En utero
Encyclopedia of all the daughters I couldn't be : Virgen
Memory, a lacuna
Encyclopedia of all the daughters I couldn't be : Doctora
Alternative school : a very special episode
My boyfriend's maid : a reverse Cinderella story : Bien Educada
Encyclopedia of all the daughters I couldn't be : good immigrant
Volver, volver
Magical realism, or the objective correlative as the symbol of madness : a domestic realism vignette
The fantasy of healing
In the shadow of the wolf
The final boss : a poetics of world-building in the apocalyptic imagination
Magical realism, or newton's apple suspended between falling from the tree and being of the tree
The uses of fantasy
Magical realism, or the wolf is the land is the people is the border : an animal study
When we all loved a show about a wall : ice, borders, and the accidental revolutionary politics of Game of thrones

LCCN:

2024006002

Control Number:

3343862

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