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Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood

Queer Chicano/Mexicano Desire and Belonging

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Editors:
  1. Adelaida R. Del Castillo

    1. Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA

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  2. Gibrán Güido

    1. Department of Literature, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, USA

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  • This work speaks to a visibly growing sector of gay men among a predominantly young Latino national group (its majority being Chicano/Mexicano) in need of a literature sensitive to different discourses of culture, cultural citizenship, and sexuality as queer Chicanos/Mexicanos examine their lived experience with fathers, fathering, and fatherhood
  • Builds on growing interest on the topic of gay men and father/son relationships
  • Written mostly through the voices of queer Chicano/Mexicano sons

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology (PSLA)

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction: Queer Chicano/Mexicano Accounts of Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood

    • Adelaida R. Del Castillo
    Pages 1-20

  3. “Can I Write About My Father?”: Representations of the Presence of Being

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-22
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    2. Sky Maps

      • Daniel Vidal Soto
      Pages 23-24

    3. Journal 2

      • Daniel Vidal Soto
      Pages 25-28

    4. January Spirals

      • Daniel Vidal Soto
      Pages 29-35

    5. Unwriting the Father

      • R. Allen Baros
      Pages 37-48

    6. Overall Prince, Now Father Lauren: On Becoming a Two-Spirit Butch Queen Father

      • Cuauhtémoc Peranda
      Pages 49-59

  4. Fathers, Father Figures, and the Family

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-62
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    2. Tommy Paved the Way

      • Robert Jude Frausto
      Pages 63-77

    3. Todo sobre mi madre/All About My Mother

      • Carlos Manuel
      Pages 79-87

    4. Tito—A Remembrance of My Father

      • Larry T. Baza
      Pages 89-94

    5. Deddy

      • José Héctor Cadena
      Pages 95-97

    6. My Two Boys

      • Gustavo V. Segade
      Pages 99-107

    7. Punched in the Stomach

      • Marcus H. Fisher
      Pages 109-112

  5. Fatherhood, Queer Consciousness, and Neurodiversity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. ¿Cómo estás, mi niño? (How Are You, My Boy?): Memories of Father and Fatherhood—Mental Illness, Enforced Masculinity, and Loss

      • Eddy Francisco Álvarez Jr.
      Pages 115-123

    3. My Dead Father

      • Miguel Garcia Jr.
      Pages 125-131

    4. Alchemistas (Alchemists)

      • Christian Emmañuel
      Pages 133-137

    5. Coming Home to Myself

      • Luis A. Chavez Rodriguez
      Pages 139-150
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA

    Adelaida R. Del Castillo

  • Department of Literature, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, USA

    Gibrán Güido

About the editors

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).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fathers, Fathering, and Fatherhood

  • Book Subtitle: Queer Chicano/Mexicano Desire and Belonging

  • Editors: Adelaida R. Del Castillo, Gibrán Güido

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60877-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60876-7Published: 30 April 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60879-8Published: 30 April 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60877-4Published: 29 April 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2946-4218

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-4226

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 287

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Gender Studies, Latino Culture, Cultural Studies

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