The Quixote cult

The Quixote cult

  • Autor: González, Genaro
  • Editor: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558852549
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781518502057
  • eISBN Epub: 9781518503023
  • Lugar de publicación:  Houston , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación: 2017
  • Páginas: 224

The late 1960s was a heady time to come to adulthood, even in deep South Texas. When the narrator of The Quixote Cult—known simply as De la O—begins college, he discovers a world of political activists, Vietnam veterans, small-time drug dealers, and academic opportunists unlike anything he and his friend Lucio ever experienced in the barrio. And the more he sees of the fighting between La Raza revolutionaries, union members, political bosses, and paramilitary protesters, the more De la O wonders if the preaching of Chicano brotherhood isn’t simply the flowering of another crackpot cult. But as he encounters day-care radicals, tilts at institutional windmills, and learns about St. Che and other icons, De la O also meets such living wonders as the Jewish Aztec Princess and The Brown Barbie. The Quixote Cult confirms Genaro González’s reputation as a rambunctious, quirky writer whose characters, as The Nation wrote, “combust into their own living, full-colored reality”—even as they take on such important hippie-era questions as “You guys do bathe, don’t you?”

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • 1. Nothing ever happens, until it happens
  • 2. An underground education
  • 3. The indecipherable computer
  • 4. Uncle Emiliano wants you!
  • 5. Slgans on the streets, silence on the home front
  • 6. Baby talk, big-boy talk
  • 7. The ghost of graduation past
  • 8. Tripping down to the big mango
  • 9. Pruning the family tree, grafts and all
  • 10. Some family ties tighten, others unravel
  • 11. The unbeatable foe
  • 12. Kid Quixote
  • 13. Day care radicals
  • 14. A baptism by the river
  • 15. Canon folder
  • 16. Give me land and liberty, or death by overdose
  • 17. Number one´s not enough
  • 18. Saint Che and other icons
  • 19. Love so heavy it hurts to lift
  • 20. Chiches on Che
  • 21. Workimg within the windmills
  • 22. Our Mano in Havana, our men on the Moon
  • 23. Jewish Aztec Princess
  • 24. An ignoble near death at the hands of dentists
  • 25. Overbite the bullet
  • 26. Protests to go, pro Bono
  • 27. Love, La Raza, and other Lost Causes
  • 28. Adelita in Acapulco
  • 29. The bottomless hole
  • 30. An act of God
  • 31. A dissabled deity
  • 32. Cities of silver and gold
  • 33. California cousins
  • 34. Great to be home, can´t wait to go back
  • 35. Ivory tower of Babel
  • 36. Yosemite Zapata
  • 37. Wherever death may embarrass us
  • 38. Martyrs don´t matter
  • 39. Old Turks never die, they just turn into eunuchs
  • 40. New uniforms for a new ballgame
  • 41. Witch hunt
  • 42. A far journey
  • 43. Acid indigestion
  • 44. The nightbirds return home to roost
  • 45. Mosquitos waiting in the wings
  • 46. Adiós, dulce nena
  • 47. The man form nowhere hitchhikes home

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