Title Something more splendid than two / Jose Rivers Alfaro

Published [Santa Barbara, CA] Dead letter office, an imprint of punctum books, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (108 pages) Contents Prelude -- 1. Joaquin as my father -- 2. Joaquin as myself -- 3. Joaquin as John Rollin Ridge -- Epilogue: reading with my students Summary "Blending 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 Joaquin Murrieta. In the Mexican American imaginary, the legend of Joaquin Murrieta has been recast to explain the wounding of Mexican American men after the 1848 border formation. In these versions, Joaquin 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." -- pumctumbooks.com Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes "This work carries a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license" -- t.p. verso Subject Alfaro, Jose Rivers Ridge, John Rollin, 1827-1867. The life and adventures of Joaquin Murieta: the celebrated California bandit Murieta, Joaquín, -1853 -- Fiction SUBJECT Murieta, Joaquín, -1853 fast Subject Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography Hispanic American gay people -- Biography Mexican American gay people -- Biography Patriarchy. Indigenous men -- Identity. Sexual minorities -- Identity. Mexican Americans -- Colonization -- Social aspects -- United States Indians of North America -- Colonization -- Social aspects -- United States Authors, American Hispanic American gays Indigenous men -- Identity Mexican American gays Patriarchy Sexual minorities -- Identity United States Genre/Form Biographies Fiction Form Electronic book ISBN 9781685710651 1685710654

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