Gloria E. Anzaldua

Interviews/Entrevistas

Herausgeber: Keating, Analouise

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Produktbeschreibung

In this memoir-like collection, Anzaldúa's powerful voice speaks clearly and passionately. For readers engaged in postcoloniality, feminist theory, ethnic studies, or queer identity, Interviews/Entrevistas will be a key contemporary document.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780415925044
• ISBN-10: 0415925045
• Artikelnr.: 21819687

Autorenporträt

Gloria E. Anzaldúa is the author of Borderlands/LaFrontera: The New Mestiza , Friends from the OtherSide/Amigos del otro lado, and Prietita and the GhostWoman/ Prietita y la Llorona, editor of Making Face,Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and CriticalPerspectives by Women of Color, and co-editor of ThisBridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Anzaldúa has played a pivotal role in redefining US feminisms, cultural studies, Chicano/a issues, US American literature, ethnic studies, queer theory, and postcolonial theory. AnaLouise Keating is Associate Professor of English at Aquinas College. In addition to Women Reading Women Writing: Self-Invention in Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde, she co-edited Perspectives: Gender Studies and has published articles on critical "race" theory, queer theory, Latina writers, African American women writers, and pedagogy.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Risking the Personal
An Introduction
1. Turning Points
An Interview with Linda Smuckler (1982)
Early Writing Experiences; Grade School; High School; A Sense of Difference; College; "My Task": Making Face, Making Soul, Making Heart; Sexuality/Spirituality/Writing; First Turning Point: Teaching (and) Chicano Culture; Second Turning Point: Entering the Feminist Movement; The "Path of Writing"; Third Turning Point: Becoming a Full
Time Writer; Another Turning Point: Teaching "La Mujer Chicana"; This Bridge; Audience and Voice; Publishing and "El Mundo Zurdo"; Writing the Body, Becoming a Mouth; Other Influences
2. Within the Crossroads
Lesbian/Feminist/Spiritual Development An Interview with Christine Weiland (1983) Early Life; Bodies and Health; Religions; "Yoga of the Body"; "Off the Rational Track"; Meditations, Making Love to the Divine; Spirituality and Power; Becoming Lesbian?; Ethnic Pride, Worldwide Oneness; "The Gathering of the Tribe"; "La Facultad"
3. Lesbian Wit
Conversation with Jeffner Allen (late 1980s)
Labels; Shapeshifting, Changing Identities; Bridges, Rainbows, Coalitions; Reading; Compartmentalized Identities; Imaginai, Psychic Identities; Lesbian Writings and Audiences
4. Making Choices 151
Writing, Spirituality, Sexuality, and the Political
An Interview with AnaLouise Keating (1991)
This Bridge and Haciendo Caras; New Interconnections: Moving from Unity to Solidarity; Spirituality: "Roots," Masks, Essentialism; Becoming Lesbian?; Always on the Other Side/del otro lado: Differences, Lesberadas; Representation: Individual and Collective "We"
5. Quincentennial
From Victimhood to Active Resistance
Inés Hernández
Ávila y Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1991) Claiming Agency; Resistance; Originality; The New Tribalism; Mestizas as Bridges; "Las Tres Madres"
6. Making Alliances, Queerness, and Bridging Conocimientos
An Interview with Jamie Lee Evans (1993)
Making Alliances; Shifting Power; Anthologizing Alliances; Identity: The Power of Self
Invention; Conocimientos
7. Doing Gigs
Speaking, Writing, and Change
An Interview with Debbie Blake and Carmen Abrego (1994)
¿ Queer Conference ?; The New Tribalism; Knowledge, Conocimientos, and Power; Fighting/Theorizing Racism; Coalition Work: Bridge, Drawbridge, Sandbar, Island; Revisionist Mythmaking; Essentializing, Universalizing, and the Autobiographical; Lived Experience/ Representation; Making Soul: Writing the Coatlicue State, Nepantla, Llorona; Impact on Readers; "Doing Gigs"
8. Writing
A Way of Life
An Interview with María Henríquez Betancor (1995)
Chicana Writers; Identity
in
Process: A "Geography of Selves"; Relational Identities; "Autohistorias, Autohisteorias"; Language Conflicts; "On The Edge, Between Worlds"; The Ethnic Test: Who's the Real Chicana?; Writing/Reading as Survival and Healing
9. Toward a Mestiza Rhetoric
Gloria Anzaldúa on Composition, Postcoloniality, and the Spiritual
An Interview with Andrea Lunsford (1996)
Early Memories of Writing; Nos/otras; Postcolonial Studies, Composition Studies; Writing: Difficulties and Practices; Teaching Composition: Assimilation, Resistance, Liberation; Language, Domination; Composing the Work, the Self, the World; Claiming Author(ity); Style; Activism, Working for Change; Additional Bits
10. Last Words? Spirit Journeys
An Interview with AnaLouise Keating (1998
1999)
Dealing with Criticism and Controversy; Ignoring the Spiritual; Shapeshifting; Interconnections; Anger; Physical Health, Bodies, and Identity Formation; The Importance of Listening
Primary Works Cited
The Interviewers
The Authors
Index.