Beast Meridian

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Beast Meridian

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. BEAST MERIDIAN narrates the first- generation Mexican American girl, tracking the experiences of cultural displacement, the inheritance of generational trauma, sexist and racist violence, sexual assault, economic struggle, and institutional racism and sexism that disproportionately punishes brown girls in crisis. Narrated by a speaker in mourning marked as an at- risk juvenile, psychologically troubled, an offender, expelled and sent to alternative school for adolescents with behavioral issues, and eventually, a psychiatric hospital, it survives the school to prison pipeline, the immigrant working class condition, grueling low- pay service jobs, conservative classism against Latinxs in Texas, queerness, assimilation, and life wrapped up in frivolous citations, fines, and penalties. The traumatic catalyst for the long line of trouble begins with the death of a beloved young grandmother from preventable cervical cancerâ€”another violence of systemic racism and sexism that prevents regular reproductive and sexual health care to poor immigrant communitiesâ€”and the subsequent deaths of other immigrant family members who are mourned in the dissociative states amidst the depressive trauma that opens the book. The dissociative states that mark the middleâ€”a surreal kind of shadowland where the narrator encounters her animal self and ancestors imagined as animals faces brutal surreal challenges on the way back to life beyond traumaâ€”is a kind of mictlan, reimagined as a state of constant mourning that challenges American notions of "healing" from trauma, and rather acknowledges sadness, mourning, and memory as a necessary state of constant awareness to forge a "way back" toward a broader healing of earth, time, body, history.
Country USA
Brand Noemi Press
Manufacturer Noemi Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781934819654
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781934819654
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Noemi Press
Manufacturer	Noemi Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781934819654
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781934819654
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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