Myriam Gurba
1) Mean
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Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Myriam Gurba's debut is the bold and hilarious tale of her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Mean turns what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, funny, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously. We act mean to defend ourselves from boredom and from those who would cut off our breasts. We act...
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English
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In this artfully crafted collection of new short stories by award-winning author Myriam Gurba, nothing is as it seems on the surface. A Mexican grandmother tells creepy yet fascinating ghost stories to her granddaughters as a way to make them sit still ("How Some Abuelitas Keep Their Chicana Granddaughters Still So That They Can Paint Their Portraits in Winter"). A Polish grandfather spends the night in a Mexican graveyard after a Día de Muertos...
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English
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Within weeks of the Pearl Harbor attack and the declaration of war on the United States by Germany and Italy, US war plans included the defense of the East Coast and the invasion of Sicily. Here, Ezio Costanzo examines the many elements of this secret scenario, which included long-suppressed information about cooperation between the Mafia and the US Army. The results came in the aftermath of the invasion, during the new military government that gave...
4) Mala onda
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Language
Español
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"Somos malas para defendernos del aburrimiento y de aquellos que quieren cortarnos los pechos. Somos malas para defender nuestros clubes e instituciones. Somos malas porque nos gusta reírnos. Ser mala onda con niños es divertido, además de ser un deber del feminismo de la segunda ola. Ser grosera con hombres que se lo merecen es una misión sagrada. La sororidad es poderosa, pero ser una perra es más apasionante. Ser una perra es espectacular".
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Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Myriam Gurba's informal sociology of creeps, a deep dive into the dark recesses of the toxic traditions that plague the United States and create the abusers who haunt our books, schools, and homes. Through cultural criticism disguised as personal essay, Gurba studies the ways in which oppression is collectively enacted, sustaining ecosystems that unfairly distribute suffering and premature death to our most vulnerable. Yet identifying individual...