Something More Splendid Than Two

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dc.contributor.authoralfaro, josé rivers
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-28T16:07:37Z
dc.date.available2024-05-28T16:07:37Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-13
dc.date.updated2024-05-28T16:07:37Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
dc.description.abstractBlending literary analysis and memoir, Something More Splendid Than Two is at once an excavation of intergenerational wounds, a dance number, a poem, and a fraught love letter from son to father that disrupts the dominant narratives surrounding the life and myth of Joaquín Murrieta. In the Mexican American imaginary, the legend of Joaquín Murrieta has been recast to explain the wounding of Mexican American men after the 1848 border formation. In these versions, Joaquín is a vigilante hero and the patriarchal father of the Chicanx movement. Revisiting the most circulated version of the Joaquín myth, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta written by Cherokee writer John Rollin Ridge, the first published Native American author in the US, Something More Splendid Than Two offers an alternative to these versions. Stitching together multiple tangled histories of Indigenous and Mexican woundings living in the margins of Ridge’s 19th-century novel, alfaro opens a queer timeline where Chicanx and Indigenous solidarities can be imagined. By attuning to the choreographies of power and patriarchy that produced readers and writers like Ridge and the author of this book, josé rivers alfaro imagines that in that endless encounter between reader and writer, both time travel and collective healing are possible.
dc.description.versionVoR
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.53288/0412.1.00
dc.identifier.isbn9781685710644
dc.identifier.isbn9781685710651
dc.identifier.other4c6edfeb-226d-4e99-b077-a68042caa2ca
dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/694
dc.languageENG
dc.publisherpunctum books
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectBM
dc.subjectJFSK
dc.subjectJFSL4
dc.subjectJFSL9
dc.subjectBIO031000
dc.subjectSOC044000
dc.subject5PB-US-E
dc.subject5PB-US-H
dc.subjectDNC
dc.subjectJBSJ
dc.subject19th-century America
dc.subjectborderlands
dc.subjectCalifornia
dc.subjectChicanx Studies
dc.subjectIndigenous Studies
dc.subjectJoaquin Murrieta
dc.subjectLatinx Studies
dc.subjectQueer Studies
dc.titleSomething More Splendid Than Two
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33
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