Bridging : how Gloria Anzaldúa's life and work transformed our own (Book, 2011) [Texas Group Catalog]
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Bridging : how Gloria Anzaldúa's life and work transformed our own

Bridging : how Gloria Anzaldúa's life and work transformed our own

Author: AnaLouise Keating; Gloria González-López
Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011.
Edition/Format:   Print book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:
The inspirational writings of cultural theorist and social justice activist Gloria Anzaldua have empowered generations of women and men throughout the world. Charting the multiplicity of Anzaldua's impact within and beyond academic disciplines, community trenches, and international borders, BRIDGING presents more than thirty reflections on her work and her life, examining vibrant facets in surprising new ways and  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Cross-cultural studies
Named Person: Gloria Anzaldúa; Gloria Anzaldúa; Gloria Anzaldúa
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: AnaLouise Keating; Gloria González-López
ISBN: 9780292725553 0292725558 9780292743953 0292743955
DOI: 10.7560/725553
OCLC Number: 668990496
Description: xiv, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: Building bridges, transforming loss, shaping new dialogues: Anzaldúan studies for the twenty-first century / Analouise Keating and Gloria González-López --
Part I: The new mestizas: "transitions and transformations". Bridges of conocimiento: una conversación con Gloria Anzaldúa / Lorena M.P. Gajardo ; A letter to Gloria Anzaldúa written from 30,000 feet and 25 years after her "Speaking in tongues: a letter to 3rd-world women writers" / Ariel Robello ; Deconstructing the immigrant self: the day I discovered I am a Latina / Anahí Viladrich ; My path of conocimiento: how graduate school transformed me into a nepantlera / Jessica Heredia ; Aprendiendo a vivir/aprendiendo a morir / Norma Elia Cantú ; Making face, rompiendo barreras: the activist legacy of Gloria E. Anzaldúa / Aída Hurtado --
Part II: Exposing the wounds: "You gave me permission to fly into the dark". Anzaldúa, maestra / Sebastián José Colón-Otero ; "May we do work that matters": bridging Gloria Anzaldúa across borders / Claire Joysmith ; A call to action: spiritual activism ... an inevitable unfolding / Karina L. Céspedes ; Gloria Anzaldúa and the meaning of queer / Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba ; Breaking our chains: achieving nos/otras consciousness / Lei Zhang ; Conocimiento and healing: academic wounds, survival, and tenure / Gloria González-López --
Part III: Border crossings: inner struggles, outer chance. Letters from nepantla: writing through the responsibilities and implications of the Anzaldúan legacy / Michelle Kleisath ; Challenging oppressive educational practices: Gloria Anzaldúa on my mind, in my spirit / Betsy Eudey ; Living transculturation: confessions of a santero sociologist / Glenn Jacobs ; Acercándose a Gloria Anzaldúa to attempt community / Paola Zaccaria ; Learning to live together: bridging communities, bridging worlds / Shelley Fisher Fishkin ; Risking the vision, transforming the divides: nepantlera perspectives on academic boundaries, identities, and lives / Analouise Keating --
Part IV: Bridging theories: intellectual activism with/in borders. "To live in the borderlands means you" / Mariana Ortega ; A modo de testimoniar: borderlands, papeles, and U.S. academia / Esther Cuesta ; On borderlands and bridges: an inquiry into Gloria Anzaldúa's methodology / Jorge Capetillo-Ponce ; For Gloria, para mí / Mary Catherine Loving ; Chicana feminist sociology in the borderlands / Elisa Facio and Denise A. Segura ; Embracing borderlands: Gloria Anzaldúa and writing studies / Andrea A. Lunsford --
Part V: Todas somo nos/otras: toward a "politics of openess". Hurting, believing, and changing the world: my faith in Gloria Anzaldúa / Suzanne Bost ; Feels like "Carving bone": (re)creating the activist-self, (re)articulating transnational journeys, while sifting through Anzaldúan thought / Kavitha Koshy ; Shifting / Kelli Zaytoun ; "Darkness, my night": the philosophical challenge of Gloria Anzaldúa's aesthetics of the shadow / María Deguzmán ; The simultaneity of self- and global transformations: bridging with Anzaldúa's liberating vision / Mohammad H. Tamdgidi ; For Gloria Anzaldúa ... who left us too soon / Gloria Steinem ; She eagle: for Gloria Anzaldúa / Becky Thompson --
Glossary --
Published writings by Gloria E. Anzaldúa.
Responsibility: edited by AnaLouise Keating and Gloria González-López.

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Thirty-two wide-ranging voices pay tribute to the late Gloria Anzaldúa, the beloved poet and fiction writer who redefined lesbian and Chicana/o identities for thousands of readers.  Read more...
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