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Genre/Form: | Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Anzaldúa, Gloria. Gloria Anzaldúa reader. Durham : Duke University Press, 2009 (OCoLC)747305680 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: | Gloria Anzaldúa; AnaLouise Keating |
ISBN: | 9780822345558 0822345552 9780822345640 0822345641 |
OCLC Number: | 319500661 |
Description: | xi, 361 pages ; 25 cm |
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. |
Series Title: | Latin America otherwise. |
Responsibility: | Gloria E. Anzaldúa ; AnaLouise Keating, editor. |
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“The Reader does a good job of offering a wide range of Anzaldúa’s writings, from her most famous and well-loved essays that appeared in the seminal Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza to never-before-published poems, experimental fiction, interviews, e-mail communications, and unfinished pieces. Anzaldúa was a notorious perfectionist, sometimes revising essays and stories until an editor had to yank them from her hands. Still, this selection would’ve made Anzaldúa proud.” - Liliana Valenzuela, Texas Observer “Compiled and edited by AnaLouise Keating, Anzaldúa’s long-time co-editor on decolonizing book projects such as this bridge we call home, The Anzaldúa Reader provides an in-depth view of the wide scope of Anzaldúa’sinterests and the developing nature of key concepts throughout her writing career. And it is this developing life project of Anzaldúa, the queer mestiza writer-poet-healer-activist, that provides the narrative structure for the Reader.” - George Hartley, Southwestern American Literature “This stunning anthology offers the best of Anzaldua, a versatile author, self-described as a queer mestiza Chicana feminist poet-philosopher. Her prolific poetry, theory, ‘autohistoria,’ short stories, and drawings are compiled in this thought-provoking volume.” - WATERwheel “The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader is the first and most comprehensive collection of Anzaldúa’s works. Keating has woven them carefully and artfully together into a tapestry sparkling with Anzaldúa’s insights, such as her theories of new tribalism, left-handed world, la mestiza consciousness, and spiritual activism.” - Xiumei Pu, Feminist Formations “AnaLouise Keating’s compilation of Gloria Anzaldúa’s ‘early,’ ‘middle,’ and ‘later’ writings provides a service to scholars; additionally, it is a joy to read Gloria’s voice seeped in ‘shaman aesthetics’ that impel and move us to radical action. Undoubtedly, Anzaldúa’s impact on various levels—including academic fields such as border studies, women’s studies, and American studies—is long-lasting and profound.”— Norma E. Cantú, University of Texas at San Antonio, founder of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa “Gloria Anzaldúa was a courageous participant in late-twentieth-century decolonial movements. Throughout this reader she insists that academic knowledge must take into account the spirit-body-emotions-mind matrix. Such an accounting would transform academic knowledge, she believed, and make way for emancipatory modes of knowing and for brave, new subjects of history. The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader samples the bold lifework of a woman whose aims were to relieve suffering and to envision a decolonizing social affinity capable of uniting humanity in love.”—Chela Sandoval, author of Methodology of the Oppressed “Keating collects poems, essays, prose and commentaries by Anzaldúa, revealing the public figure the pathbreaking queer Chicana writer as well as a sensual and deeply spiritual iconoclast. Anzaldúa’s voice emerges defiant, mercenary, passionate and unapologetic. . . . . The book is punctuated by Anzaldúa’s simple drawings, exercises in deconstruction and reconstruction of identity. Her writings capturing her relentless fight to avoid being stereotyped and to empower women of color within and without academia are rich and various, exploring everything from gender, memory and oppression to sex in the afterlife.” * Publishers Weekly * “The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader is the first and most comprehensive collection of Anzaldúa’s works. Keating has woven them carefully and artfully together into a tapestry sparkling with Anzaldúa’s insights, such as her theories of new tribalism, left-handed world, la mestiza consciousness, and spiritual activism.” -- Xiumei Pu * Feminist Formations * “Compiled and edited by AnaLouise Keating, Anzaldúa’s long-time co-editor on decolonizing book projects such as this bridge we call home, The Anzaldúa Reader provides an in-depth view of the wide scope of Anzaldúa’s interests and the developing nature of key concepts throughout her writing career. And it is this developing life project of Anzaldúa, the queer mestiza writer-poet-healer-activist, that provides the narrative structure for the Reader.” -- George Hartley * Southwestern American Literature * “The Reader does a good job of offering a wide range of Anzaldúa’s writings, from her most famous and well-loved essays that appeared in the seminal Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza to never-before-published poems, experimental fiction, interviews, e-mail communications, and unfinished pieces. Anzaldúa was a notorious perfectionist, sometimes revising essays and stories until an editor had to yank them from her hands. Still, this selection would’ve made Anzaldúa proud.” -- Liliana Valenzuela * Texas Observer * “This stunning anthology offers the best of Anzaldua, a versatile author, self-described as a queer mestiza Chicana feminist poet-philosopher. Her prolific poetry, theory, ‘autohistoria,’ short stories, and drawings are compiled in this thought-provoking volume.” * WATER * Read more...