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An edition of The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader (2009)

The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader

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Born in the Río Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldúa was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa played a major role in shaping contemporary Chicano/a and lesbian/queer theories and identities. As an editor of three anthologies, including the groundbreaking This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, she played an equally vital role in developing an inclusionary, multicultural feminist movement. A versatile author, Anzaldúa published poetry, theoretical essays, short stories, autobiographical narratives, interviews, and children’s books. Her work, which has been included in more than 100 anthologies to date, has helped to transform academic fields including American, Chicano/a, composition, ethnic, literary, and women’s studies.

This reader—which provides a representative sample of the poetry, prose, fiction, and experimental autobiographical writing that Anzaldúa produced during her thirty-year career—demonstrates the breadth and philosophical depth of her work. While the reader contains much of Anzaldúa’s published writing (including several pieces now out of print), more than half the material has never before been published. This newly available work offers fresh insights into crucial aspects of Anzaldúa’s life and career, including her upbringing, education, teaching experiences, writing practice and aesthetics, lifelong health struggles, and interest in visual art, as well as her theories of disability, multiculturalism, pedagogy, and spiritual activism. The pieces are arranged chronologically; each one is preceded by a brief introduction. The collection includes a glossary of Anzaldúa’s key terms and concepts, a timeline of her life, primary and secondary bibliographies, and a detailed index.

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361

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2009, Duke University Press
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January 1, 2009, Duke University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Reading Gloria Anzaldúa, reading ourselves ... complex intimacies, intricate connections -- Part 1. "Early" writings : -- Tihueque -- To Delia, who failed on principles -- Reincarnation -- The occupant -- I want to be shocked shitless -- The new speakers -- Speaking in tongues: a letter to third world women writers -- The coming of el mundo surdo -- La prieta -- El paisano is a bird of good omen -- Dream of the double-faced women -- Foreword to the second edition (of This Bridge Called My Back) -- Spirituality, sexuality, and the body: an interview with Linda Smuckler.
Part 2. "Middle" writings : -- Enemy of the state -- Del otro lado -- Encountering the medusa -- Creativity and switching modes of consciousness -- En rapport, in opposition: cobrando cuentas a las nuestras -- The presence -- Metaphors in the tradition of the shaman -- Haciendo caras, una entrada -- Bridge, drawbridge, sandbar, or island: lesbians-of-color hacienda Alianzas -- Ghost trap / trampa de espanto -- To(o) queer the writer -- loca, escritora y chicana -- Border arte: nepantla, el lugar de la frontera -- On the process of writing Borderlands / La Frontera -- La vulva es una herida abierta / the vulva is an open wound -- The new Mestiza nation: a multicultural movement.
Part 3. Gallery of images -- Part 4. "Later" writings : -- Foreword to Cassell's encyclopedia of queer myth, symbol and spirit -- How to -- Memoir- my calling; or, notes for "How Prieta Came to Write" -- When I write I hover -- Transforming American studies: 2001 Bode-Pearson prize acceptance speech -- Yemaya -- (Un)natural bridges, (un)safe spaces -- Healing wounds -- Reading LP -- A short Q & A between LP and her author (GEA) -- Like a spider in her web -- Bearing witness: their eyes anticipating the healing -- The postmodern llorona -- Speaking across the divide -- Llorona coyolxauhqui -- Disability & identity: an e-mail exchange & a few additional thoughts -- Let us be the healing of the wound: the Coyolxauhqui imperative -- la sombra y el sueno -- Appendix 1. Glossary -- Appendix 2. Timeline: Some highlights from Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa's life.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Latin america otherwise

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.5409
Library of Congress
PS3551.N95 A6 2009

Contributors

Editor
AnaLouise Keating

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 361p.
Number of pages
361

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23668028M
Internet Archive
gloriaanzaldarea00glor
ISBN 10
0822345641, 0822345552
ISBN 13
9780822345558, 9780822345640
LCCN
2009029299
OCLC/WorldCat
939214974
Library Thing
9295624
Goodreads
6468644
6652672

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March 28, 2017 Edited by Yolanda added person; fixed pages & pagination
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