Noche Oscura del Oeste

Noche Oscura del Oeste

Role

Juan Velasco-Moreno (Author)

María Velasco-Moreno (Illustrator)

Description

Juan Velasco presents The Massacre of the Dreamers as an allegory, a symbolic transposition of a territory and its time, perhaps a prophecy unintentionally in its creative moment, already transformed into a visionary announcement of a disoriented and foolish future (...) The Massacre of the Dreamers contains dreamers interwoven within it, all those who have left their dreams in an unredeemed West (Tomás-Néstor Martínez Álvarez).
The America of 1988: NY-LA, appears to us as a liquid—perhaps gaseous—reality, as a “no-place,” an indelible part of a mythical but paradoxically tangible geography, without which it is impossible to understand our own vital and cultural geography; the America clinging to its religion of the ephemeral; the America of madmen wandering the city streets, like unexpected body snatchers; the America of the unbearable kitsch of pink flamingos. (Juan José Martín Ramos).
In the third part, Calida Fornax, Juan Velasco sublimates and contextualizes the mythical and legendary California. Early chronicles had not entered the literary discourse because this history does not "exist" in present-day Anglo-American California, and therefore has not been literaryized. This is precisely what Chicano muralists, poets, and writers—like Juan Velasco—knowledgeable about this history of the North American colonial period, intentionally erased from schools, manage to sublimate. (Armando Miguélez).


The present volume, Dark Night of the West, compiles in its three works a history of violence, the diary of a disquiet, and the representation of the violent epic upon which collective identity is founded.

ISBN

9791399034240

Publication Date

5-29-2025

Publisher

Editorial Polibea

Noche Oscura del Oeste

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