The Gloria Anzaldua reader / Gloria E. Anzaldua ; AnaLouise Keating, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anzaldúa, Gloria.

Contributor:

Keating, AnaLouise, 1961-

ebrary, Inc.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Latin America otherwise.

Latin america otherwise

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--20th century.

Authors, American.

Mexican American women authors--20th century.

Mexican American women authors.

Mexican American lesbians.

Mexican Americans in literature.

Lesbians in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of published and unpublished writings of the groundbreaking Chicana writer and self-described "chicana dyke-feminist, tejana patlache poet, writer and cultural theorist" Gloria Anzaldúa.

Contents:

Contents; Editor's Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reading Gloria Anzaldúa, Reading Ourselves . . .Complex Intimacies, Intricate Connections; Part One: "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 Woman; Foreword to the Second Edition (of This Bridge Called My Back); Spirituality, Sexuality, and the Body: An Interview with Linda Smuckler

Part Two: "Middle" WritingsEnemy 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 MovementPart Three: Gallery of Images; Part Four: "Later" Writings; Foreword to Cassell's Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symboland 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; Yemayá; (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 Anticipate the Healing; The Postmodern Llorona; Speaking across the Divide

Llorona CoyolxauhquiDisability & Identity: An E-mail Exchange & a Few Additional Thoughts; Let us be the healing of the wound: The Coyolxauhquiimperative-la sombra y el sueño; Appendix 1: Glossary; Appendix 2: Timeline: Some Highlights from Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa's Life; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613036018

9781283036016

1283036010

9780822391272

0822391279

OCLC:

609924584