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A carregar... Valencia (edição 2000)por Michelle Tea
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Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District. Michelle Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife-wielding Marta, who introduces Michelle to a new world of radical sex Willa, Michelle's tormented poet-girlfriend Iris, the beautiful boy-dyke who ran away from the South in a dust cloud of drama and Iris's ex, Magdalena Squalor, to whom Michelle turns when Iris breaks her heart. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I was surprised by the extent to which Valencia can be read as a satire. I think my favorite example of this is a side comment about how the main character needed to self-soothe and so headed to the local co-op for something really delicious, which she decides would be fake meat. There are just so many levels on which that works as parody of the lesbian community, but it -- and its fellow comments every few pages -- are meant entirely in earnest as the author's lived experience.
At the same time, the commentary that borders on satire is also trenchant. It captures queer culture tucked into little asides that have more than a grain of truth. Pride, for instance, really is culturally a festival for finding a new lover.
For that reason, it's clear why this book won a Lambda Literary Award. Valencia speaks truth even in the midst of (because it is in the midst of?) the grittiness of serious drug use, major depression, fisting and knifeplay, and cockroaches scurrying across mattresses. Although the story didn't speak to me of perfect freedom so much as poverty, self-delusion, and self-destructiveness, even for super-square me, it captured the soul of the bar scene and play party community, of the small knots of people whose shared and unquestioned political beliefs and sexual practices form the core of the wider culture, which the rest of us visit in fits and starts. ( )