Sex as a Political Condition: A Border Novel (The Americas Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (539 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0896729303 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorA native of El Paso, Carlos Nicolás Flores is a winner of the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize and author of a young adult novel, Our House on Hueco (TTUP, 2006). He teaches English at Laredo Community College in Laredo, Texas.. As director of the Teatro Chicano de Laredo and a former director of the South Texas Writing Project, he has long been engaged in the promotion of new writers and writing about the Mexican-American experience
A native of El Paso, Carlos Nicolás Flores is a winner of the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize and author of a young adult novel, Our House on Hueco (TTUP, 2006). He teaches English at Laredo Community College in Laredo, Texas.. As director of the Teatro Chicano de Laredo and a former director of the South Texas Writing Project, he has long been engaged in the promotion of new writers and writing about the Mexican-American experience
Encouraged by his friend Trotsky, he becomes politically activesmuggling refugees, airlifting guns to Mexican revolutionaries, negotiating with radical Chicana lesbiansbut the naked truths he faces are more often naked than true and constantly threaten to unman him. Honoré del Castillo runs the family curio shop in the backwater border town of Escandón, Texas, and fears dying in front of his TV like some six-pack José in his barrio. When a convoy loaded with humanitarian aid bound for Nicaragua pulls into Escandón, his journey to becoming a true revolutionary hero begins, first on Escandón’s international bridge and then on the highways of Mexico. But not until both the convoy and Honoré’s mortality and manhood are threatened in Guatemala does he finally confront the complications of his love for his wife and daughter, his political principles, the stench of human fear, and ultimately what it means to be a principled man in a screwed-up world.. Sex as a Political Condition: A Border Novel is a raucous, hilarious journey through political dangers that come in all shapes, cup sizes, and sexual identities, a trip into the wild, sometimes outrageous world of the Texas-Mexico border and all geographical and anatomical points south
Easy read. Raised eyebrows in my community Amazon Customer Reading it now. Easy read. Raised eyebrows in my community. Author is from here. Some people may not fully know or accept the reality of portraying a barrio-dwelling Chicano male worldview. I am a retired prof living in my abüela's 94-year-old barrio house where I spent my youth and can appreciate. Outlandish. Offensive. On target. tommymac In his second novel, Carlos Nicolás Flores tells the story of Honoré, who runs his family’s curio shop in Escondón, Texas (loosely based on Laredo, Texas). Once a drug smuggler, Honoré looks for something a little more fulfilling and turns to, at times, smuggling both . "My first book in years" according to Humberto Rodriguez. Being someone who never found interest in books, has completely changed his opinion. After reading Sex As A Political Condition, my mind has been blown away with its adventure. The book is easy to read, yet it is so well detailed to every situation the protagonist gets into. It's almost as if I felt li