Prieta Is Dreaming : A Cuentos-Novela.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anzaldúa, Gloria.

Contributor:

Zaytoun, Kelli D.

Keating, AnaLouise.

Bost, Suzanne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American--21st century.

Short stories, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2025.

Summary:

A generative, genre-bending collection of nineteen intertwined stories by legendary writer, theorist, and activist Gloria E.Anzaldúa.Best known for Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), Gloria E.Anzaldúa was also a prolific fiction writer.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Editors' Introduction

Story Overviews

"La Prieta Is Dreaming"

Part One: Familia

1.The Second Heart / El segundo corazón

Translations

2.Out of the Corner of the Eye / De reojo

3. In the Mouth of the Sea / En el hocico del mar

4.People Should Not Die in June in South Texas

Part Two: Patlache

5.Como Quelite

6.Mita' y mita'

7.Movidas of a Baby Butch

8.Eating the Fruit / Comiendo del árbol como Xochiquetzal

9.El Paisano Is a Bird of Good Omen

Part Three: University Life

10.In the Shadow of la Chingada (or Smoking Mirror)

11.The Crack Between the Worlds

12.Becoming luciérnaga / Swallowing frefies / Tragando luciérnagas

13.Night of the Lizard / Noche de la lagartija

Part Four: Becoming Chamana

14.She Ate Horses

15.Reading LP

16.Like a Crow on the Wing / Como urraca en vuelo

17.Ghost Trap / Trampa de espanto

18.La Werejaguar in the Woods of the Dream

19.Song of the Rattlesnake / Canción de cascabel

Acknowledgments / Reconocimientos

Editors' Appreciation

Appendix 1: Instrucciones a la autora / Instructions to the Author

Instrucciones a la autora / Instructions to the Author

Doubling the Doubled "I"

On Method and Madness

Appendix 2: A History of the Stories

1. The Second Heart / El segundo corazón

2. Out of the Corner of the Eye / De reojo

4. People Should Not Die in June in South Texas

5. Como Quelite

6. Mita' y mita'

7. Movidas of a Baby Butch.

8. Eating the Fruit / Comiendo del árbol como Xochiquetzal

9. El Paisano Is a Bird of Good Omen

10. In the Shadow of la Chingada (or Smoking Mirror)

11. The Crack Between the Worlds

12. Becoming luciérnaga / Swallowing fireflies / Tragando luciérnagas

13. Night of the Lizard / Noche de la lagartija

14. She Ate Horses

15. Reading LP

16. Like a Crow on the Wing / Como urraca en vuelo

17. Ghost Trap / Trampa de espanto

18. La Werejaguar in the Woods of the Dream

19. Song of the Rattlesnake / Canción de cascabel

Appendix 3: Anzaldúa's Writing Process: "The Crack Between the Worlds"

Works by Gloria E. Anzaldúa (Editors' References)

Editors

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

979-88-558-0456-0

OCLC:

1545650321