Dr. Marc García-Martínez provides readers and in-depth analyses
of Alejandro Morales’ works. The outset of this text details the Morales’ descriptions
of the sometimes beautiful, horrific or sublime nature of the body. García-Martínez
examines Morales’ modes of poetic construction elucidates the inherent
connections between the body, the soul, and societal borders that Morales’
works illustrate. García-Martínez
reveals the subtext and scaffolding that García-Martínez utilized to layer
explorations of ethnic symbologies, motifs, and religions; “disease, disorders,
and decadence…technology and science, urban ecology, cultural ruin vs.
renaissance, mythology, futuristic conceptualizations, (post)colonialism and
self-determined consciousness” - Francisco A. Lomelí, Prof of Spanish & Portuguese
and Chicana/o Studies, UCSB, editor of Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland
(with Rudolfo A. Anaya).
Frederick Luis Aldama, author
of The Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature and Arts &
Humanities Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University, reviewed the text
as "Leaving in the dust all those highfalutin' literary theories of
yesteryear,” describing “Marc García-Martínez [as digging his] heels in deep to
dig out a radically new aesthetic paradigm.”
García-Martínez has unraveled
the folds of meaning contained within each piece featured by Morales, and in
doing so has unveiled the deep, rich multiplicities of self, imagination and
histories within Chicano bodies. García-Martínez delves into Morales’ methodologies
of making his reader disquieted in their reflection of omnipresent abject –
putting on display the ties between the decaying body, the earth, and violence
among men.
The
Flesh-And-Blood Aesthetics of Alejandro Morales is a must
read for any scholar, educator or writer that wishes to view Morales’ work
through the credible and holistic lens of a Chicano author. García-Martínez clearly recognizes his platform and has manifested
a text that not only transgresses the layers and borders of Morales’ poetics,
but also transcends the White-American gaze that often infects and alters the
Latinx voice.
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