Finding Querencia: Essays from In-Between - Couverture souple

Candelaria Fletcher, Harrison

 
9780814258170: Finding Querencia: Essays from In-Between
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0814258174 ISBN 13 : 9780814258170
Editeur : Mad Creek Books, 2022

Synopsis

Winner, 2022 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award (Autobiography/Memoir category)

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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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Mad Creek Books
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814258174
ISBN 13 
9780814258170
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
180
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