The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader
By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa ; AnaLouise Keating, editor.
Contributors: Keating, AnaLouise, 1961-
Series: Latin america otherwise
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780822345558; 9780822345640
Subjects: Authors, American -- 20th century; Mexican American women authors -- 20th century; Mexican American lesbians; Mexican Americans in literature; Lesbians in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Reading Gloria Anzaldúa, reading ourselves ... complex intimacies, intricate connections -- Part 1. "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 women -- Foreword to the second edition (of This Bridge Called My Back) -- Spirituality, sexuality, and the body: an interview with Linda Smuckler.; title: Part 2. "Middle" writings : -- Enemy 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 movement.; title: Part 3. Gallery of images -- Part 4. "Later" writings : -- Foreword to Cassell's encyclopedia of queer myth, symbol and 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 -- Yemaya -- (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 anticipating the healing -- The postmodern llorona -- Speaking across the divide -- Llorona coyolxauhqui -- Disability & identity: an e-mail exchange & a few additional thoughts -- Let us be the healing of the wound: the Coyolxauhqui imperative -- la sombra y el sueno -- Appendix 1. Glossary -- Appendix 2. Timeline: Some highlights from Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa's life.