Show Me More: (Muéstrame más)
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Beschrijving
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In Show Me More, language isn't a vessel-it's land. A line. A claim. Written in Spanish charged with pulses of Spanglish, the novel moves across a fractured geography-Baltimore, New Mexico, Ciudad Escarlata-where the unresolved body, becomes terrain: contested, desired, made and unmade through naming. The scenes come brief, cut close-held back, stripped of explanation, thick with what refuses to be said. The narrative doesn't clarify; it lingers at the threshold: between tongues, between selves, between utterance and silence. Here, the intimate folds into the political. Here, language resists capture, refuses to settle, asks the reader to stay inside the unease. This is not only a story. It is an inquiry into limits-of gender, of language, of the structures that try, and fail, to hold them in place.
In Show Me More, language isn't a vessel-it's land. A line. A claim. Written in Spanish charged with pulses of Spanglish, the novel moves across a fractured geography-Baltimore, New Mexico, Ciudad Escarlata-where the unresolved body, becomes terrain: contested, desired, made and unmade through naming. The scenes come brief, cut close-held back, stripped of explanation, thick with what refuses to be said. The narrative doesn't clarify; it lingers at the threshold: between tongues, between selves, between utterance and silence. Here, the intimate folds into the political. Here, language resists capture, refuses to settle, asks the reader to stay inside the unease. This is not only a story. It is an inquiry into limits-of gender, of language, of the structures that try, and fail, to hold them in place.
AmazonPagina's: 162, Paperback, Brown Buffalo Press
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