Muerte en una estrella = Shooting Star

Muerte en una estrella = Shooting Star

  • Author: Elizondo, Sergio
  • Publisher: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558857865
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781611928587
  • Place of publication:  Houston , United States
  • Year of publication: 2014
  • Pages: 310

In this haunting novel about two young vatos, author Sergio Elizondo eulogizes Óscar Balboa and Valentín Rodríguez, who are sixteen and nineteen respectively when they are shot and killed by the police in Austin, Texas. On leave from Camp Gary, a youth training facility in nearby San Marcos, the two “strutting icons of Raza manhood worthy of a guitar ballad” are the novel’s principal voices as they lie dying.

In other chapters, Oscar remembers traveling north with his parents as a young boy to pick crops and joining farm workers’ protest marches. Songs of all types—symphonic, orchestral and protest—infuse the narrative:  “We’ll summon the spirit of a poet so that he can adapt our people’s story through time and set it to music.” Elizondo’s short and tragic novel bears witness to la raza’s struggles for rights, whether in the fields, the work place or on college campuses.

Originally published in Spanish and now available for the first time in English, this classic of Mexican-American literature provides insight into the Chicano civil rights movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Muerte en una estrella / Shooting Star is a profoundly disturbing and moving denunciation of bigotry and discrimination.

Bilingual edition.

  • Cover page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V
  • VI
  • VII
  • VIII
  • IX
  • X
  • XI
  • XII
  • XIII
  • XIV
  • XV
  • XVI
  • XVII
  • XVIII
  • XIX
  • XX
  • Title page
  • I Oscar and Valentín, or Front and Center
  • II. Reverie: Like a Little Ant
  • III. Oscar's Thoughts on the Cornfield, Sugar Cane and the Grass Beneath
  • IV. At Camp Gary: Rise and Shine
  • V. Oscar on the Camp: Drop of water, we are alike
  • VI. Ma and Pa Do Love Osca, Valentín is out
  • VII. No need to speak about it
  • VIII. Let's suppose I die, eh?
  • IX. Oscar here; there, EL Alfala, in Edcouch: In Constant Comparison
  • X. El García, not a nice chicano
  • XI. Oscar as a Boy challenging his dad
  • XII. Oscar One-on-One: Talking to himself
  • XIII. Oscar's Thoughts on the Owl: In the End you never know who you're working for
  • XIV. Mr. Balboa and Elsa, his pregnant wife, give lovely reasons to have a boy or a girl
  • XV Oscar and Valentín meet for the first time at Camp Gary
  • XVI Oscar helps his father: bearingwitness to the Chicano Revolt
  • XVI. Oscar helps his father: Bearing Witness to the Chicano Revolt
  • XVII. Oscar's great introduction to fine music; at home with the german ladies
  • XVIII. Meet the Surumatos. Tale of Carmen and the Marbles
  • XIX Oscar: Everything Is alive, everything is in motion
  • XX The color of Blood: Oscar and Valetnín Murdered by the Police

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