Light in the dark = Luz en lo oscuro : rewriting identity, sprirituality, reality (Book, 2015) [Texas Group Catalog]
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Light in the dark = Luz en lo oscuro : rewriting identity, sprirituality, reality

Light in the dark = Luz en lo oscuro : rewriting identity, sprirituality, reality

Author: Gloria Anzaldúa; AnaLouise Keating
Publisher: Durham ; Londres : Duke University Press, [2015] ©2015
Series: Latin America otherwise.
Edition/Format:   Print book : Mixed form : EnglishView all editions and formats
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« Written during the last decade of her life, Light in the Dark represents the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Throughout, Anzaldúa weaves personal narratives into deeply engaging theoretical readings to comment on numerous contemporary issues—including the September 11 attacks, neocolonial practices in the art world, and coalitional  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Light in the dark Luz en lo oscuro : rewriting identity, spirituality, reality / Gloria E. Anzaldúa.
Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2015. (@Latin America otherwise)
978-0-8223-7503-6
(ABES)24269652X
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gloria Anzaldúa; AnaLouise Keating
ISBN: 9780822360094 0822360098 9780822359777 0822359774
OCLC Number: 1126252235
Description: xxxvii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Contents: Editor's Introduction. Re-envisioning Coyolxauhqui, Decolonizing Reality: Anzaldúa's Twenty-First-Century Imperative  ix Preface. Gestures of the Body—Escribiendo para idear  1 1. Let us be the healing of the wound: The Coyolxauhqui imperative—la sombra y el sueño  9 2. Flights of the Imagination: Rereading/Rewriting Realities  23 3. Border Arte: Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera  47 4. Geographies of Selves—Reimagining Identity: Nos/Otras (Us/Other), las Nepantleras, and the New Tribalism  65 5. Putting Coyolxauhqui Together: A Creative Process  95 6. now let us shift . . . conocimiento . . . inner work, public acts  117 Agradecimientos | Acknowledgements 161 Appendix 1. Lloronas Dissertation Material (Proposal, Table of Contents, and Chapter Outline)  165 Appendix 2. Anzaldúa's Health  171 Appendix 3. Unfinished Sections and Additional Notes from Chapter 2  176 Appendix 4. Alternative Opening, Chapter 4  180 Appendix 5. Historical Notes on the Chapters' Development  190 Appendix 6. Invitation and Call for Papers, Testimonios Volume  200 Notes  205 Glossary  241 References  247 Index  257
Series Title: Latin America otherwise.
Other Titles: Luz en lo oscuro
Responsibility: Gloria E. Anzaldúa ; edited [and prefacing] by AnaLouise Keating.

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Light in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldua's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it  Read more...
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"Published more than a decade after Anzaldúa’s death, the collection of essays is a welcomed resource for scholars and students of Anzaldúa, Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, and American studies. Read more...

 

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