The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader (Latin America Otherwise) - Hardcover

Anzaldua, Gloria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822345552 ISBN 13: 9780822345558

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2009

Synopsis

Born in the Río Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldúa was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa played a major role in shaping contemporary Chicano/a and lesbian/queer theories and identities. As an editor of three anthologies, including the groundbreaking This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, she played an equally vital role in developing an inclusionary, multicultural feminist movement. A versatile author, Anzaldúa published poetry, theoretical essays, short stories, autobiographical narratives, interviews, and children’s books. Her work, which has been included in more than 100 anthologies to date, has helped to transform academic fields including American, Chicano/a, composition, ethnic, literary, and women’s studies.

This reader—which provides a representative sample of the poetry, prose, fiction, and experimental autobiographical writing that Anzaldúa produced during her thirty-year career—demonstrates the breadth and philosophical depth of her work. While the reader contains much of Anzaldúa’s published writing (including several pieces now out of print), more than half the material has never before been published. This newly available work offers fresh insights into crucial aspects of Anzaldúa’s life and career, including her upbringing, education, teaching experiences, writing practice and aesthetics, lifelong health struggles, and interest in visual art, as well as her theories of disability, multiculturalism, pedagogy, and spiritual activism. The pieces are arranged chronologically; each one is preceded by a brief introduction. The collection includes a glossary of Anzaldúa’s key terms and concepts, a timeline of her life, primary and secondary bibliographies, and a detailed index.

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From the Publisher

"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 life-work 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

"AnaLouise Keating's compilation of Gloria Anzaldúa's `early,' `middle,' and `later' writings provides a service to scholars, and it is a joy to read Gloria's voice, seeped in `shaman aesthetics' that impel and move us to radical action. Her impact on various domains, 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

From the Back Cover

"AnaLouise Keating's compilation of Gloria Anzaldua'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, Anzaldua'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. Cantu, University of Texas at San Antonio, founder of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldua

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0822345552
• ISBN 13: 9780822345558
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Keating AnaLouise