Magical Habits by Monica Huerta (English) Paperback Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Magical Habits by Monica Huerta Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her familys Mexican restaurants and her life as an academic to sketch out habits of living that allow us to consider what it means to live with history as we are caught up in it and how those histories bear on our capacities to make sense of our lives. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In Magical Habits Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her familys Mexican restaurants and her life as a scholar of literature and culture to meditate on how relationships among self, place, race, and storytelling contend with both the afterlives of history and racial capitalism. Whether dwelling on mundane aspects of everyday life, such as the smell of old kitchen grease, or grappling with the thorny, unsatisfying question of authenticity, Huerta stages a dynamic conversation among genres, voices, and archives: personal and critical essays exist alongside a fairy tale; photographs and restaurant menus complement fictional monologues based on her familys history. Developing a new mode of criticism through storytelling, Huerta takes readers through Cook County courtrooms, the Cristero Rebellion (in which her great-grandfather was martyred by the Mexican government), Japanese baths in San Francisco-and a little bit about Chaucer too. Ultimately, Huerta sketches out habits of living while thinking that allow us to consider what it means to live with and try to peer beyond history even as we are caught up in the middle of it. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient Author Biography Monica Huerta is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Princeton University. Table of Contents Authors Note ix Preface: A Patron Saint xi 1. The Synthesis Problem 1 2. Fabulation 22 1988 31 3. Disciplines and Disciples 33 4. Aphorism as a Promise 42 2002 48 5. Heartbreak as Praxis 51 6. Whether Wisdom 68 2004 73 The Quene. A Mervilos and Magiquall Tale of epistemological Mischief, Wherein there are revealed no secretes 77 7. Before and After 85 2006 98 8. When Courts of Love Have Cash Registers 103 1976 107 9. Auctions 111 10. Uncertainty and Bathing 118 2010 124 2013 128 11. After Hypervigilance 132 2017 142 12. Choreography 143 Acknowledgments 153 Notes 157 Selected Bibliography 167 Review "Monica Huerta moves readers toward a habit of being captured by objects that mesh ones own singular and collective histories. We learn to breathe with them and to be dispossessed by them. This fantastic book enchanted me and taught me so much." -- Lauren Berlant, author of * Cruel Optimism *"Magical Habits is as much a treasure trove as it is a book—full of surprises, glittering insights, lyrical vignettes, personal archives, political history, family lore, and brilliant literary critique. The writing is exquisite, for the book is both polyphonic and constantly---effortlessly---changing tack. I would turn the page without any sense of where Monica Huerta might take me next, only knowing that I wanted to follow, that I did not want to come out from under this spell." -- Justin Torres, author of * We the Animals *"Thoughtful, wry, and intimate, Magical Habits is a memoir thats rich with questions about identity, heritage, authenticity, and the true American dream." -- Meg Nola * Foreword *"This striking debut blends personal and political essays with U.S. and Mexican histories, photos, menus and a fable to indulge multiple habits of thought rather than proposing there is one way of knowing." * New York Times Book Review *"Huerta weaves into each chapter powerful stories of her upbringing and family and the narrative of her own winding path in academia. She cleverly uses a variety of documents and historical archival material, sourced from her family and their businesses in Chicago and Mexico, to explore wide-ranging themes of migration and displacement and the results of what she calls racial capitalism. . . . It is a fascinating read. . . ." -- Amy Lewontin * Library Journal *"Magical Habitss blend of personal archive and theory prompts the reader to question their assumptions around what constitutes accepted archives and heralded academic discourse. . . . Within a relatively slim text, Huerta performs a rich kind of self-ekphrasis, looking at material from her own life and family for clues about how to live alongside scholarship: television, family lore, tales from her love life that read like movie reels." -- Rosa Boshier * Los Angeles Review of Books *"When I tweeted a joke (joke) about timing my book proposal to a certain full moon, someone recommended I read Monica Huertas Magical Habits, an intimate, academic, genre-bending study of race, history, and heritage grounded in Huertas experience growing up in her familys Mexican restaurants. Im glad I listened, and not only because Huerta validates moon-based writing timelines—it was a much-needed reminder that there are countless ways to tell a story, and that a book can be whatever you want it to be." -- Arianna Rebolini * The Millions *"Delightfully heterogenous and perfectly unblended, Huertas mixture of creative and critical writing spans from history to monologues, to tales and family documents, including a variety of media—photographs, restaurant menus, advertisements—which comprise her personal archive (xix). . . . As a book which seeks to enact as much as describe, Magical Habits is a love story between the reader and the writing, one to be read with generosity and eagerness (ix)." -- Adriana Murad Konings * ASAP/Journal *"Monica Huertas first book, Magical Habits, is unlike many other contemporary Latinx studies monographs. It breaks with generic conventions of literary criticism and stuns with Huertas reflections on everyday encounters with history and capitalism via family, place, race, self, and the stories they intertwine." -- Jennifer M. Lozano * MELUS *"Monica Huertas intricate and deeply intimate Magical Habits takes the reader on an inventive study of the links between stories, race, place, and archive. . . . This book will definitely benefit students and researchers in the fields of feminism and gender studies, critical race theory, Chicanx studies, and Latinx literature. It could also enlighten students wishing for more creative liberty in academia." -- Anaïs Ornelas Ramirez * Lateral *"Monica Huertas Magical Habits takes us deep into the possibilities of everyday objects, feelings, and questions. . . . I love this book because I, like Huerta, am committed to take on scholarly rituals that lead to elsewhere. This memoir that is also a collage and a performance does just this." -- Suzanne Bost * Prose Studies *"Magical Habits is ambitious in nature and its memoir vignettes are beautifully written. Moreover, Huertas analysis exemplifies how food studies, ethnic studies, memoir, and visual culture studies can work together. . . . I hope that Magical Habits will herald more creative structures for scholarship for a new generation of academic writers." -- Regina Marie Mills * Biography * Review Quote "Monica Huerta moves readers toward a habit of being captured by objects that mesh ones own singular and collective history. We learn to breathe with them and to be dispossessed by them. This fantastic book enchanted me and taught me so much." Details ISBN1478014172 Author Monica Huerta Publisher Duke University Press Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1478014172 ISBN-13 9781478014171 Series Writing Matters! Format Paperback Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Pages 200 Publication Date 2021-08-13 AU Release Date 2021-08-13 NZ Release Date 2021-08-13 US Release Date 2021-08-13 UK Release Date 2021-08-13 Translator Lesli Cavanaugh-Bardelli Birth 1865 Death 1944 Affiliation Lovely Professional University, India Position Translator Qualifications SJ Illustrations 15 illustrations Alternative 9781478013266 DEWEY 647.9577311 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:161868032;

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