Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood: Queer Chicano/Mexicano Desire and Belonging

ISBN-13: 9783030608798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Del Castillo, Adelaida R.

Opis

Bringing together a unique collection of narrative accounts based on the lived experience of queer Chicano/Mexicano sons, this book explores fathers, fathering, and fatherhood. In many ways, the contributors reveal the significance of fathering and representations of fatherhood in the context of queer male sexuality and identity across generations, cultures, class, and Mexican immigrant and Mexican American families. They further reveal how father figures—godfathers, grandfathers, and others—may nurture and express love and hope for the queer young men in their extended family. Divided into six sections, the book addresses the complexity of father-queer son relationships; family dynamics; the impact of neurodiverse mental health issues; the erotic, unsafe, and taboo qualities of desire; encounters with absent, estranged or emotionally distant fathers; and a critical analysis of father and queer son relationships in Chicano/Latino literature and film.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction: Queer Chicano/Mexicano Accounts of Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood, Adelaida R. Del Castillo and Gibrán Güido

Part 1: “Can I write about my father?”: Representations of the Presence of Being

Chapter 2: Sky Maps, Daniel Vidal Soto

Chapter 3: Journal 2, Daniel Vidal Soto

Chapter 4: January Spirals, Daniel Vidal Soto

Chapter 5: Unwriting the Father, R. Allen Baros

Chapter 6: Overall Prince, Now Father Lauren, Cuauhtémoc Peranda

Part 2  Fathers, Father Figures, and the Family

Chapter 7: Tommy Paved the Way, Robert Jude Frausto

Chapter 8: Todo sobre mi madre/All about My Mother, Carlos Manuel

Chapter 9: Tito – A Remembrance of My Father, Larry T. Baza

Chapter 10: Deddy, José H. Cadena

Chapter 11: My Two Sons, Gustavo V. Segade

Chapter 12: Punched in the Stomach, Marcus Fisher

Part 3   Fatherhood, Queer Consciousness, and Neurodiversity

Chapter 13: ¿Cómo estás, mi niño? (How Are You, My Boy?): Memories of Father and Fatherhood – Mental Illness, Enforced Masculinity, and Loss, Eddy F. Álvarez Jr.

Chapter 14: My Dead Father, Miguel Garcia Jr.

Chapter 15: Alchemistas (Alchemists), Christian Emmañuel

Chapter 16: Coming Home to Myself, Luis A. Chavez Rodriguez

Chapter 17: The Best, Fredy Caballero

Part 4  Desire, Daddy Issues, and Taboos

Chapter 18: Border Crossings, Omar O. González

Chapter 19: How to Compromise Your Self, Daniel Vidal Soto

Chapter 20: A Performance Recovery: Cruising Fathered Memories Through Dependency Circuits, Joe E. Martinez

Chapter 21: “Make Me Your Toxic Son, Daddy”: The Bio-Familial Bonds Created by Gay Men Vis-à-vis “Bug Chasing” and “Gift Giving, Omar O. González

Part 5  Situating Spent and Shifting Fatherhoods

Chapter 22: Our Shimmering and Ephemeral DNA, Gibrán Güido

Chapter 23: Querido Padre: Things I Want to Tell You and Other Thoughts, Adán Campos

Chapter 24: No Last Name, Yosimar Reyes

Chapter 25: Communion, Jesus Daniel Mendez Carbajal

Chapter 26: Chrysalis, Jesus Daniel Mendez Carbajal

Part 6   Fatherhood Patterns and Passionate Fathering

Chapter 27; Like Father, Like Queer Son?: Gay Chicanx and Latinx Males and Their Fathers, Daniel Enrique Pérez

Chapter 28: My Padrino, Xuan Carlos Espinoza-Cuellar

Chapter 29: God is Never Ashamed of Us, Xuan Carlos Espinoza-Cuellar

Chapter 30:You Will Love, Xuan Carlos Espinoza-Cuellar

O autorze

Adelaida R. Del Castillo is Associate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University, USA. She has published on sex/gender meaning and economic survival strategies in Mexico City and is co-editor of Queer in Aztlán: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out (Lambda Literary Awards Finalist). 

Gibrán Güido is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literature at the University of California at San Diego, USA, and a founding member of the Association for Jotería Arts, Activities, and Scholarship (AJAAS). He co-edited Queer in Aztlán: Chicano Male Recollections of Consciousness and Coming Out (Lambda Literary Awards Finalist).

Blurb

“This book is a beautiful, moving and fascinating read that presents a high-quality and original contribution to the field. The editors have compiled intimate testimonies that provide a superb analysis of the Chicano/Mexicano culture and social hierarchies, as well as how masculinity, queerness, and kinship play out in this context. The stories in this book are enthralling and have the potential to decolonize academic writing.”

— Marcin Smietana, Research Associate in the Reproductive Sociology Research Group, University of Cambridge, UK 

Bringing together a unique collection of narrative accounts based on the lived experience of queer Chicano/Mexicano sons, this book explores fathers, fathering, and fatherhood. In many ways, the contributors reveal the significance of fathering and representations of fatherhood in the context of queer male sexuality and identity across generations, cultures, class, and Mexican immigrant and Mexican American families. They further reveal how father figures—godfathers, grandfathers, and others—may nurture and express love and hope for the queer young men in their extended family. Divided into six sections, the book addresses the complexity of father-queer son relationships; family dynamics; the impact of neurodiverse mental health issues; the erotic, unsafe, and taboo qualities of desire; encounters with absent, estranged or emotionally distant fathers; and a critical analysis of father and queer son relationships in Chicano/Latino literature and film.