2108960Magical/Realismhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/magical-realism-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1907558/35d97939-b3bf-4f1c-8335-7562b14b21ed.jpg?v=638491111849870000461461MXNPenguin Random House Audio Publishing GroupInStock/Audiolibros/Longlisted for the National Book Award Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in MemoirA brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop culturefrom Beyoncé to Game of Thronesto excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared by migration and colonialism.Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmothers story, only to return to the sudden loss of her marriage, home, and reality.In Magical/Realism, Villarreal crosses into the erasure of memory and self, fragmented by migration, borders, and colonial and intimate violence, reconstructing her story with pieces of American pop culture, and the music, video games, and fantasy that have helped her make sense of it all.The border between the real and imagined is a speculative space where we can remember, or re-world, what has been lostand each chapter engages in this essential project of world-building. In one essay, Villarreal examines her own gender performativity through 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 help us interpret and heal when grief feels insurmountable. She reflects on the moments of her life that are too painful to rememberher difficult adolescence, her role as the eldest daughter of Mexican immigrants, her divorceand finds a way to archive her history and map her future(s) with the hope and joy of fantasy and magical thinking.Magical/Realism is a wise, tender, and essential collection that carves a path toward a new way of remembering and telling our storiesbroadening our understanding of what memoir and cultural criticism can be....2084592Magical/Realism461461https://www.gandhi.com.mx/magical-realism-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1907558/35d97939-b3bf-4f1c-8335-7562b14b21ed.jpg?v=638491111849870000InStockMXN99999DIAudiolibro20249780593787083_W3siaWQiOiI2OWZjY2RhOS03OWQ2LTQ1NDUtOWMyMi1lZGUxMTIyZGRiNzkiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjQ1MCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjAsInNlbGxpbmdQcmljZSI6NDUwLCJpbmNsdWRlc1RheCI6dHJ1ZSwicHJpY2VUeXBlIjoiV2hvbGVzYWxlIiwiY3VycmVuY3kiOiJNWE4iLCJmcm9tIjoiMjAyNC0xMi0wMVQwMDowMDowMFoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOmZhbHNlLCJpc0VsaWdpYmxlRm9yQ3JlZGl0VHJpYWwiOnRydWUsImNyZWRpdFB1cmNoYXNlUHJpY2UiOjF9XQ==9780593787083_From award-winning poet Vanessa Angélica Villarreal comes a brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop culture to excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared by the forces of migration and colonialism.In Magical/Realism, Vanessa Angélica 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 structure: 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 rememberher difficult adolescence, her role as the eldest daughter of Mexican immigrants, her divorceand 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....(*_*)9780593787083_Longlisted for the National Book AwardLonglisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismA brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop culturefrom Beyoncé to Game of Thronesto excavate and reimagine what has been disappeared by migration and colonialism.Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmothers story, only to return to the sudden loss of her marriage, home, and reality.In Magical/Realism, Villarreal crosses into the erasure of memory and self, fragmented by migration, borders, and colonial and intimate violence, reconstructing her story with pieces of American pop culture, and the music, video games, and fantasy that have helped her make sense of it all.The border between the real and imagined is a speculative space where we can remember, or re-world, what has been lostand each chapter engages in this essential project of world-building. In one essay, Villarreal examines her own gender performativity through 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 help us interpret and heal when grief feels insurmountable. She reflects on the moments of her life that are too painful to rememberher difficult adolescence, her role as the eldest daughter of Mexican immigrants, her divorceand finds a way to archive her history and map her future(s) with the hope and joy of fantasy and magical thinking.Magical/Realism is a wise, tender, and essential collection that carves a path toward a new way of remembering and telling our storiesbroadening our understanding of what memoir and cultural criticism can be....9780593787083_Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Groupaudiolibro_e981a5da-4cb9-36b6-9319-c4861dbe6f8a_9780593787083;9780593787083_9780593787083Vanessa AngélicaInglésMéxico2024-05-14T00:00:00+00:00NoMINUTE2024-05-14T00:00:00+00:00Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group