Name: The Chronicles
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Author: García, Ramón
ISBN: 9781597094283

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Author

Ramón García

Publisher

Red Hen Press

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

112

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781597094283

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Synopsis "The Chronicles"

By evoking the Old Testament book referenced in the title of the collection, The Chronicles recounts distinctive aspects of a Mexican American's presence in California. Fairy tales, bible stories, and Greek myths are reinvented as the genealogy of a poet obsessed by memory and the transformations of dislocation. The Frog Prince longs to be a frog again, Sleeping Beauty doesn't know who she is, Medusa is a misunderstood femme-fatale, Bluebeard is a desired eccentric, and Marilyn Monroe wins the first annual Miss Artichoke beauty contest. Ramón García brings to life landscapes populated by misfits who find--like their mythical counterparts--a sense of belonging between the marvelous and the ordinary, memory and reality. In coming to terms with the intricacies of immigration and migration, García defamiliarizes well-known tales, rewriting enchanting and disturbing versions of stories we thought we knew.

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