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02583aam a2200313 i 4500 001 9BC31114223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240604012727 008 240320t20242024nyua b 000 e eng d 020 $a 0593187148 020 $a 9780593187142 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1428771899 040 $a TOH $b eng $e rda $c TOH $d OCO $d BKL $d OJ4 $d NYP $d YDX $d SILO 082 04 $a 814 $2 23 100 1 $a Villarreal, Vanessa AngeÌlica, $e author. 245 10 $a Magical/realism : $b essays on music, memory, fantasy, and borders / $c Vanessa AngeÌlica Villarreal. 260 $a New York : $b Tiny Reparations Books, $c [2024] 300 $a xi, 370 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "In Magical/Realism, Vanessa AngeÌlica Villarreal offers us an intimate mosaic of migration, violence, and colonial erasure through the lens of her marriage and her experiences navigating American monoculture. As she attempts to recover the truth from the absences and silences within her life, her relationships, and those of her ancestors, Vanessa pieces together her story from the fragments of music, memory, and fantasy that have helped her make sense of it all. The trauma of remembering gives the collection its unique Each chapter is an attempt to reimagine and re-world what has been lost. In one essay, Vanessa examines the gender performativity of Nirvana and Selena; in another, she offers a radical but crucial racial reading of Jon Snow in Game of Thrones; and throughout the collection, she explores how fantasy can provide healing when grief feels insurmountable. She reflects on the moments of her life that are too painful to remember--her difficult adolescence, her role as the eldest daughter of Mexican immigrants, her divorce--and finds a new way to archive her history and map her future(s), one infused with the hope and joy of fantasy and magical thinking. By engaging readers in her project of rebuilding narrative, Vanessa broadens our understanding of what memoir and cultural criticism can be. Magical/Realism is a wise, tender, and essential collection that carves a path toward a new way of remembering and telling our stories." -- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Villarreal, Vanessa AngeÌlica. 650 0 $a Mexican American women. 650 0 $a Popular culture. 650 0 $a Imperialism. 650 0 $a Immigrants. 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240604015035.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9BC31114223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search