Title:
Brown neon
Publication Date:
2022
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2022.
©2022
Physical Description:
212 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781566896375
Abstract:
Part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree, Raquel Gutiérrez's debut essay collection Brown Neon gleans insight from the sediment of land and relationships. For Gutierrez, terrain is essential to understanding that no story, no matter how personal, is separate from the space where it unfolds. Whether contemplating the value of adobe as both vernacular architecture and commodified art object, highlighting the feminist wounding and transphobic apparitions haunting the multi-generational lesbian social fabric, or recalling a failed romance, Gutǐrrez traverses complex questions of gender, class, identity, and citizenship with curiosity and nuance.
General Note:
Subtitle from cover.
Contents:
Section I: Llorando por tu amor. On making butch family: an intertextual dialogue -- A butch in the desert -- Stuck in the adobe -- Section II: Difficult terrains. Do migrants dream of blue barrels? -- Behind the barrier: resisting the border wall prototypes as land art -- Art in the time of art-washing -- Section III: La mano obra. Vessel among vessels: Laura Aguilar's body in landscape -- Memories of the skin: Shizu Saldamando's portraits -- Do I really love San Anto? -- Baby themme anthems: the werq of Sebastian Hernández.
Conference Subject:
Language:
English
