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A review by dutchcrunch
Loverboys by Ana Castillo
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Published in the wake of her formative Chicana feminist text, Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma (1994), Ana Castillo’s confessional and transcendent short story collection, Loverboys (1996), portrays in a multitude of guises, the lustful, romantic, illicit, and sanctioned nature of love and sexuality in its many forms. Not only does the collection explore both heterosexual and homosexual relationships but also complicated relationships between friends, between mothers and their children, between artists and their craft, and so on.
The best word to describe Castillo’s collection is: “transcendental”
Published in the wake of her formative Chicana feminist text, Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma (1994), Ana Castillo’s confessional and transcendent short story collection, Loverboys (1996), portrays in a multitude of guises, the lustful, romantic, illicit, and sanctioned nature of love and sexuality in its many forms. Not only does the collection explore both heterosexual and homosexual relationships but also complicated relationships between friends, between mothers and their children, between artists and their craft, and so on.
The best word to describe Castillo’s collection is: “transcendental”