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Trash
Trash interweaves the voices of three women with lived connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Aguilar Zéleny's Trash shows the complexities of survival and joy, love and violence for three women: a teenager abandoned by her guardian at the dump, a scientist doing research on the residents of the dump, and a transwoman living nearby who is the matriarch of a group of sex workers. Each one of the characters navigates family, abandonment, power, jealousy, greed, and multiple taboos around sexuality and gender violence. Their stories are linked by geography and by ideas of waste and abandonment. As Aguilar Zéleny explores these territories in her book, she asks crucial questions: Who is seen as disposable and why? How do women find their own means of survival and joy in the midst of a perilous sociopolitical context? What does it mean to live a life in a time of austerity and extreme violence? Trash is a critical intervention in Mexican literature.
The Everything I Have Lost
12-year-old Julia keeps a diary about her life growing up in Juarez, Mexico. Life in Juarez is strange. People say it's the murder capital of the world. Dad’s gone a lot. They can’t play outside because it isn’t safe. Drug cartels rule the streets. Cars and people disappear, leaving behind pet cats. Then Dad disappears and Julia and her brother go live with her aunt in El Paso. What’s happened to her Dad? Julia wonders. Is he going to disappear forever? A coming-of-age story set in today’s Juarez. Sylvia Zéleny is a bilingual author from Sonora, México. Sylvia has published several short-story collections and novels in Spanish. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso where she is currently a Visiting Writer. In 2016 she created CasaOctavia, a residence for women and LGBTQ writers from Latinamerica.
Poubelle
Un monde à l'intérieur du monde : la décharge de Ciudad Juárez. Ce sont des vies invisibles que Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny nous donne à voir dans ce roman choc. Un texte dans lequel résistance, résilience et sororité sont les maîtres mots... Ciudad Juárez, petite ville mexicaine à deux pas de la frontière américaine. Une adolescente abandonnée par son tuteur à la décharge, une scientifique faisant des recherches sur les résidents de la décharge, et une transsexuelle vivant à proximité qui est la matriarche d'un groupe de travailleuses du sexe. Poubelle entrelace les voix de trois femmes dont le monde entier tient en une décharge municipale. Chacun de ces personnages navigue entre famille, abandon, pouvoir, jalousie, cupidité et multiples tabous entourant la sexualité et la violence de genre. Leurs histoires sont liées par la géographie et par les idées de gaspillage et d'abandon. Poubelle, avec une dose de suspense et des moments de tendresse inédits, explore la marginalité, l'abandon, la violence et le quotidien en territoire frontalier.
In Transition
The first book-length work of its kind, In Transition: Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation examines the shift in the young adult book market towards increased representation of transgender characters and authors. Through a comprehensive exploration of historical conventions, genres, character diversity, and ideologies of trans representation, Emily Corbett traces the roots of trans literature from its beginnings in a cisgender-dominated publishing world to the recent rise in trans creators, characters, and implied readers. Corbett describes how trans-ness was initially perceived as an issue to be overcome by cisgender authors and highlights the ways in which the market has ...
Self Portrait in Green
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
Coming Out
What if you had a big secret? In Coming Out, six LGBT teens from six different worlds tell their stories of love, lust, romance, and relationships. Whether living on a small farm in Ohio, or in the middle of bustling Los Angeles, telling the world who you really are is complicated. Coming out is about having the courage to be yourself and accept whatever comes next.
Le livre d'Aïcha - Livre
Le choc d'une famille sans histoire face à la disparition de l'ainée qui change de vie, se convertit à l'Islam et choisit d'en adopter les coutumes les plus radicales. Patricia, jeune femme brillante et émancipée, quitte la maison dans laquelle elle a grandi pour aller étudier à Londres. Elle y rencontre Sayeb, l'homme de sa vie. À ses côtés, Patricia s'isole peu à peu et sombre dans la dépression. Sayeb la pousse à couper les ponts avec sa famille jusqu'à ce que Patricia devienne Aïcha. Très vite, elle ne retire son voile qu'entre les murs de sa maison. Ce roman n'est pas l'histoire de Patricia mais celle de ses proches, qui ont assisté impuissants à sa disparition et en ont subi les conséquences. Leur stupéfaction laissera la place à l'inquiétude et au besoin d'explications. C'est l'histoire de la quête d'une sœur qui veut comprendre et part à la recherche de la vérité. Dans un style tranchant porté par une construction magistrale, Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny nous offre le portrait d'une famille à la dérive. Un texte bouleversant.
Maria
While living in Santa Barbara and attending a private school, Maria's life was comfortably boring. Then her sister died, her father lost his job, and the whole family was forced to start over. When they move to the barrio in East L.A. to live with Maria's grandma Maria recovers her roots and becomes empowered. She can't continue hiding that she is a lesbian when she meets Natalia, a grumpy chola who smells like sugar and turns Maria's life upside down. Maria is a book from Coming Out, an EPIC Press six set series. Some titles may contain explicit content and/or language.
Representing the Rainbow in Young Adult Literature
Discussions of gender and sexuality have become part of mainstream conversations and are being reflected in the work of more and more writers of fiction, particularly in literature aimed at young adult audiences. But young readers, regardless of their sexual orientation, don’t always know what books offer well-rounded portrayals of queer characters and situations. Fortunately, finding positive role models in fiction that features LGBTQ+ themes has become less problematic, though not without its challenges. In Representing the Rainbow in Young Adult Literature: LGBTQ+ Content since 1969, Christine Jenkins and Michael Cart provide an overview of the literary landscape. An expanded version of...
Killing the Water
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