Deborah Parédez
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"What does it mean to be a 'diva'? A shifting, increasingly loaded term, it has been used to both deride and celebrate charismatic and unapologetically fierce performers like Aretha Franklin, Divine, and the women of Labelle. In this brilliant, powerful blend of incisive criticism and electric memoir, Deborah Paredez--scholar, cultural critic, and lifelong diva devotee--unravels our enduring fascination with these icons and explores how divas have...
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 178
Publisher
BOA Editions, Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A Latina feminist chronicle of the Vietnam War era in documentary poems that highlights the voices of women relegated to the margins of history"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of women as the unsung keepers of history, Deborah Paredez's second poetry collection tells her story as a Latina daughter of the Vietnam War.
The title refers to the year 1970-the "year of the Metal Dog" in the lunar calendar-which was the year of the author's birth, the year of her father's deployment to Vietnam with a troop of Mexican-American immigrant soldiers, and a year of tremendous upheaval across the United States. Images...