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A review by aliceboule
The Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta
4.0
I have never read anything like this. Acosta is truly a phenomenal writer, and honestly just all around bad-ass.
And I know that one of the cardinal sins when analyzing literature is thinking the narrator and the author are the same, but Mr. Buffalo Brown is so like what Acosta seems like, it was very very hard to keep the two separate.
He manages to blend fiction with history seamlessly, making the two difficult to differentiate. Buffalo Zeta Brown takes his place at the forefront of the Chicano Revolution of East LA. This was a history I had never been exposed to - and I have lived in Los Angeles for some time. To find locations that I had been to become the scenes of strikes and chaos in The Revolt of the Cockroach People was infinitely interesting.
I will definitely be reading more of Acosta's work.
And I know that one of the cardinal sins when analyzing literature is thinking the narrator and the author are the same, but Mr. Buffalo Brown is so like what Acosta seems like, it was very very hard to keep the two separate.
He manages to blend fiction with history seamlessly, making the two difficult to differentiate. Buffalo Zeta Brown takes his place at the forefront of the Chicano Revolution of East LA. This was a history I had never been exposed to - and I have lived in Los Angeles for some time. To find locations that I had been to become the scenes of strikes and chaos in The Revolt of the Cockroach People was infinitely interesting.
I will definitely be reading more of Acosta's work.