Loving Pedro Infante (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Denise Chávez
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The present
- Setting: Southern New Mexico
- Principal Characters: Pedro Infante, Teresa Avila, Irma Granados, Lucio Valadez
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, West, U.S., Adultery, Women, Mexican Americans, New Mexico, Southwest, 1990’s, Latinos
- Locales: New Mexico
Loving Pedro Infante is Denise Chávez’s third novel. In it, Teresa (Tere) Avila, a Mexican American woman in her thirties, wishes she had a lover like Pedro Infante, the Mexican singer and movie star who died in a plane crash in 1957. As the story details Tere’s addiction to Pedro Infante, it shows her feelings about love and sex, as well as about the culture she is part of, especially its emphasis on the tyranny of the past and the melodrama of longing. Both of these latter qualities explain why Tere belongs to a Pedro Infante fan club, of which she is the secretary and her...
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