Finding Querencia: Essays from In-Between: Machete
Autor Harrison Candelaria Fletcheren Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 apr 2022
With its roots in the Spanish verb querer—“to want, to love”—the term querencia has been called untranslatable but has come to mean a place of safety and belonging, that which we yearn for when we yearn for home. In this striking essay collection, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher shows that querencia is also a state of being: the peace that arises when we reconcile who we are. A New Mexican of mixed Latinx and white ethnicity, Candelaria Fletcher ventures into the fault lines of culture, landscape, and spirit to discover the source of his lifelong hauntings. Writing in the persona of coyote, New Mexican slang for “mixed,” he explores the hyphenated elements within himself, including his whiteness. Blending memory, imagination, form, and language, each essay spirals outward to investigate, accept, and embrace hybridity. Ultimately, Finding Querencia offers a new vocabulary of mixed-ness, a way to reconcile the crosscurrents of self and soul.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814258170
ISBN-10: 0814258174
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 26 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Mad Creek Books
Seria Machete
ISBN-10: 0814258174
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 26 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Mad Creek Books
Seria Machete
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Recenzii
“A powerful set of reflections on identity and family history.” —Kirkus
“Elegant and poignant, Finding Querencia animates the conversations about identity, belonging, and other embattled territories, but it is also about searching for grace and redemption among the ruins—and how the act of remembering is also an act of love.” —Rigoberto González, author of What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood
“Like the subjects he explores, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher’s shape-shifting prose defies easy categorization. Form and language conspire to illuminate an identity as slippery and fierce as the elements shimmering in these essays. Finding Querencia is many things—a love song, a prayer, an exquisite haunting—but ultimately, this powerful collection is an act of reckoning and reclamation.” —Sonja Livingston, author of Ghostbread
“Finding Querencia dances between margins with prose that sings like poetry and lyric essays that shoot forward and backward in time even as they swirl, dervish-like, in the present. And this is as it should be, as Candelaria Fletcher explores—with confidence and an abiding uncertainty—his own identity as a person made up of differences.” —Nance Van Winckel, author of The Many Beds of Martha Washington
“Elegant and poignant, Finding Querencia animates the conversations about identity, belonging, and other embattled territories, but it is also about searching for grace and redemption among the ruins—and how the act of remembering is also an act of love.” —Rigoberto González, author of What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood
“Like the subjects he explores, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher’s shape-shifting prose defies easy categorization. Form and language conspire to illuminate an identity as slippery and fierce as the elements shimmering in these essays. Finding Querencia is many things—a love song, a prayer, an exquisite haunting—but ultimately, this powerful collection is an act of reckoning and reclamation.” —Sonja Livingston, author of Ghostbread
“Finding Querencia dances between margins with prose that sings like poetry and lyric essays that shoot forward and backward in time even as they swirl, dervish-like, in the present. And this is as it should be, as Candelaria Fletcher explores—with confidence and an abiding uncertainty—his own identity as a person made up of differences.” —Nance Van Winckel, author of The Many Beds of Martha Washington
Notă biografică
Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams and Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life. He teaches in the MFA programs at Vermont College of Fine Arts and Colorado State University.
Extras
II ORIGIN STORY
1.
A colleague listens to you read about your childhood among
cottonwoods, owls, acequias, arroyos, and the apple-skin New
Mexican sky. Afterward, he places a hand on your shoulder
and squeezes. You are, he says, the most haunted person he
knows.
2.
You sit as a boy on the hardwood floor of your home, beside
rocks from the river, deer antlers from the llano, and a castle of
Cochiti drums. With knights and monsters, you drift through
wood-smoke incense and the watery light from the front window.
You are flying, or swimming, in a story or a dream, trying
hard to never touch down.
3.
Your grandmother watches you across the kitchen table while
your mother makes fried potatoes and tortillas for supper.
You move like your father, she says to you smiling, but since
you don't remember him, you have nothing to say, and return
instead to your toys. She tries again, this time in Spanish, but
you still don't respond, so she frowns at your mother. He's like
Pinocchio, your grandmother says. Boy made of wood: Half
self, half soul.
1.
A colleague listens to you read about your childhood among
cottonwoods, owls, acequias, arroyos, and the apple-skin New
Mexican sky. Afterward, he places a hand on your shoulder
and squeezes. You are, he says, the most haunted person he
knows.
2.
You sit as a boy on the hardwood floor of your home, beside
rocks from the river, deer antlers from the llano, and a castle of
Cochiti drums. With knights and monsters, you drift through
wood-smoke incense and the watery light from the front window.
You are flying, or swimming, in a story or a dream, trying
hard to never touch down.
3.
Your grandmother watches you across the kitchen table while
your mother makes fried potatoes and tortillas for supper.
You move like your father, she says to you smiling, but since
you don't remember him, you have nothing to say, and return
instead to your toys. She tries again, this time in Spanish, but
you still don't respond, so she frowns at your mother. He's like
Pinocchio, your grandmother says. Boy made of wood: Half
self, half soul.
Cuprins
I WHITE OUT
Open Season
Through Walls
Masked
Conjugation
White Out
II ORIGIN STORY
III COYOTE LAND
Coyote Cookbook
Coyote Drive-In
Coyote Yearbook
Of Ink Wash and Light
Identity Theft
Coyote Combat
Coyote Curfew
Imprint
IV ALTAR OF LEAVES
The Crossing
Slightest Edge
Water for Roots
A Place She Goes
Altar of Leaves
V CONFLUENCE
VI EXCAVATION
VII INHERITANCE
VIII BORDERLAND
IX COYOTE
Epilogue
Open Season
Through Walls
Masked
Conjugation
White Out
II ORIGIN STORY
III COYOTE LAND
Coyote Cookbook
Coyote Drive-In
Coyote Yearbook
Of Ink Wash and Light
Identity Theft
Coyote Combat
Coyote Curfew
Imprint
IV ALTAR OF LEAVES
The Crossing
Slightest Edge
Water for Roots
A Place She Goes
Altar of Leaves
V CONFLUENCE
VI EXCAVATION
VII INHERITANCE
VIII BORDERLAND
IX COYOTE
Epilogue
Descriere
Innovative and lyrical essays about the search for belonging while straddling white and Latinx identities.