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Slow Lightning: Image, Time, and an Erotics of Reading

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“Slow Lightning: Image, Time, and An Erotics of Reading,” Eliza Rodríguez y Gibson, Loyola Marymount University.

In her reading of Eduardo Corral’s poetry, Rodríguez y Gibson suggests that Corral’s formal experimentation with the visual as both form and content challenges ways of knowing both Chicana/o poetics, as well as Chicana/o subjectivity.

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  1. Department of Chicana/o Studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson

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  1. California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California, USA

    Cristina Herrera

  2. California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California, USA

    Larissa M. Mercado-López

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Gibson, E.R.y. (2016). Slow Lightning: Image, Time, and an Erotics of Reading. In: Herrera, C., Mercado-López, L. (eds) (Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape. Literatures of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_12

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