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2003

ISBN: 978-0-967412-72-6
$39.95, CD-ROM
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Mysteries and Desire
Searching the Worlds of John Rechy

The Labyrinth Project (in cooperation with John Rechy)

 

 

Challenging the borders between autobiography, memory, history and fiction, this interactive memoir presents a diverse array of personal materials by and about John Rechy and sets them against larger collective histories of Chicano culture and the gay world. Drawing passages from all of Rechy's published novels, it also mines the outrageous fictions that circulate around this fascinating literary figure who, as a gay icon, a Chicano writer from Texas, a dedicated bodybuilder, a gifted teacher of creative writing, and a recent recipient of the PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award, has long been a subject of notoriety and fantasy. Combining original artwork, video, archival documents, and recorded interviews and commentaries, it lets you move through three interrelated realms—Memories, Bodies, and Cruising—each with its own daring repertoire of interfaces.


Distributed for The Labyrinth Project, an art collective and research initiative at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California.

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