EntreMundos/AmongWorlds : New Perspectives on Gloria E. Anzaldúa / by A. Keating.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keating, AnaLouise, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Literature.

Ethnology--Latin America.

Ethnology.

Culture.

Race.

Fiction.

Feminism.

Feminist theory.

Poetry and Poetics.

World Literature.

Latin American Culture.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Fiction Literature.

Feminism and Feminist Theory.

Local Subjects:

Poetry and Poetics.

World Literature.

Latin American Culture.

Race and Ethnicity Studies.

Fiction Literature.

Feminism and Feminist Theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2005.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A multidisciplinary investigation of the concepts, impact, and writings of contemporary cultural theorist and creative writer, Gloria Anzaldua. Her work has challenged and expanded previous views in American Studies, composition studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, feminism, literary studies, critical pedagogy, and queer theory.

Contents:

Introduction: shifting worlds, una entrada / AnaLouise Keating

Part 1. autohistoria y autohistoria-teoria....(re)writing self, (re)writing culture

Gloria y yo: writing silence and the search for the fronteriza voice / Zulma Y. Mendez

The 1,001-piece nights of Gloria Anzaldua: autohistoria-teoria at Florida Atlantic University / Caren S. Neile

Reclaiming pleasure: reading the body in "people whould not die in June in South Texas" / Mary Loving Blanchard

Daughter of Coatlicue: an interview with Gloria Anzaldua / Irene Lara

Living in the House of Nepantla / Irene Reti

Part 2. nepantla....pathways to change

La Gloriosa Travesura de la Musa Que Cruza/The misbehaving glory(a) of the border-crossing muse: transgression in Anzaldua's children's stories / Edith M. Vasquez

Apertures of in-betweeness, of selves in the middle / Mariana Ortega

From within Germinative stasis: creating active subjectivity, resistant agency / Maria Lugones

Negotiating paradoxical spaces: women, disabilities, and the experience of Nepantla / Carrie McMaster

Part 3. nos/otras....intersecting selves/intersecting others

What do you learn from what you see? Gloria Anzaldua and double-vision in the teaching of writing / Eve Wiederhold

Reading national identities: the radical disruptions of Borderlands/La Frontera / Beth Berila

Teaching la Conciencia de la Mestiza in the midst of white privilege / Simona J. Hill

"Know me unbroken": peeling back the silenced rind of the queer mouth / Mark W. Bundy

New pathways toward understanding self-in-relation: Anzalduan (re)visions for developmental psychology / Kelli Zaytown

Part 4. conocimientos....expanding the vision

"So much meat": Gloria Anzaldua, the mind/body split, and exerting control over my fat body / Elena Levy-Navarro

Champion of the spirit: Anzaldua's critique of rationalist epistemology / Amala Levine

Shifting the shapes of things to come: the presence of the future in the philosophy of Gloria Anzaldua / Jane Caputi

"Doing Mestizaje": when epistemology becomes ethics / Monica Torres

Part 5. el mundo zurdo, the new tribalism....forging new alliances

This is personal: revisiting Gloria Anzaldua from within the borderlands / Lee Maracle

Spirit, culture, sex: elements of the creative process in Anzaldua's poetry / Linda Garber

Radical rhetoric: anger, activism, and change / Amanda Espinosa-Aguilar

Tierra tremenda: the earth's agony and ecstasy in the work of Gloria Anzaldua / Ines Hernandez-Avila

Shifting perspectives: spiritual activism, social transformation, and the politics of spirit / AnaLouise Keating.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-264) and index.

ISBN:

9786611367916

9781281367914

1281367915

9781403977137

1403977135

OCLC:

437187012