Binding: Hardcover
Description: In Magical/ Realism poet and essayist Vanessa Angelica Villarreal intimately and fearlessly explores the many complicated girlhoods of being a working - class first - generation Mexican American daughter of a cumbia musician. She loved grunge and hated Selena. She found refuge in 80s fantasy movies and in the half - acre of swampy pines behind her Houston home. And she navigated a country that never really saw her - or her family's - value beyond their labour. These essays sharply weave together memoir with explorations of race class and gender using music and pop culture as their axis. In one essay Vanessa writes about Nirvana's impact on her life as an outcast; in another she looks critically at the Latina body as a site of trouble and all that gets projected onto it. In When We All Loved a Show About a Wall Vanessa provides a crucial reading of Game of Thrones showing its radical political commentaries on borders asylum migrant rights and ICE. And in The Fantasy of Healing she connects her own divorce and trauma to the video game The Witcher. With Magical/ Realism Vanessa recovers the truth from the absences and silences of migration colonialism and white supremacy. She looks closely at music as a stand - in for the archive of the undocumented and how pop culture leaves objects behind as portals for memory. This is a wise tender expansive collection from a dazzling essential voice.
Title: Magical / Realism Essays On Music Memory Fantasy And Borders
Author(s): Villarreal Vanessa Angelica
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780593187142
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 5/14/2024
Category: Literary Essays