{"product_id":"gulf-dreams-9781939904164","title":"Gulf Dreams","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGulf Dreams \u003c\/em\u003eis the story of a Chicana who comes of age in a racist, rural Texas town. Through memory, the protagonist reexamines her unresolved obsessive love for a young woman, her best friend since childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eGulf Dreams is Emma Pérez’s signature work. Not only does it tell the dirty story of family abuse and misogynistic violence that plagues the Chicano\/a community—which itself forms the basis of Pérez’s famous theoretical constructs, \"sitio y lengua\" and \"the decolonial imaginary\"—but it is also a pithy rumination on the nature of romantic obsession, and the self-destructive behaviors and addictions that serve as internalized revenge against rape and conquest of the brown female body. This has the lyrical eroticism and colonial subtext of Marguerite Duras’ The Lover and the gritty cruelty of Amores Perros.\u003c\/em\u003e  — Alicia Gaspar de Alba\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gulf Dreams \u003cem\u003eis a powerful, gripping, and disturbing story of passion and betrayal, survival and vengeance, compulsion and resilience, told in arresting images and fragmented dreamlike narrative. Pérez’s lyrical voice and highly controlled style are unique and unforgettable.\u003c\/em\u003e — Teresa de Lauretis, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Practice of Love and Figures of Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Tejana Emma Pérez is an important voice in Chicana literature. This amalgam of life history, creative non-fiction, psychoanalytic treatise and fictional and fictionalized memoirs is also a welcome addition to queer literature. Pérez truly creates her own sitio y lengua in a Chicana lesbian cultural terrain, where the boundaries between past and present and the world of dreams blur. In\u003c\/em\u003e Gulf Dreams\u003cem\u003e, a Chicana dyke becomes the active subject of history working through the haunting of desire, tracking the pleasure of pain, and ultimately relating that loss to betrayal. Trapped between visions, she recounts her search for meaning through the broken body, stating, \"I am my only real witness\u003c\/em\u003e. — Gloria Anzaldúa, author of\u003cem\u003e Borderlands\/La Frontera\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Pérez’s Chicana lesbian characters have forever changed the landscape of Chicana literature. The text is infused with desire, with obsession. You will be pulled in by the narrator who will seduce you with words. You’ll see glimpses of other stories here:\u003c\/em\u003e The House on Mango Street\u003cem\u003e or \u003c\/em\u003eReal Women Have Curves\u003cem\u003e, but through the eyes of a jota, which changes everything\u003c\/em\u003e. — Catrióna Rueda Esquibel, author of \u003cem\u003eWith Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emma Pérez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48609357070587,"sku":"9781939904164","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_5dd9319d-dfdc-4359-a149-0e91627364ec.jpg?v=1775155948","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/gulf-dreams-9781939904164","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}